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Vienna. Portrait of a City (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Vienna. Portrait of a City (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the
heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the
Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur-but
behind the Baroque opulence, Vienna is also a place of genteel
coffee house culture, epicurean tradition, and a heritage of both
delicate and daring music, art, and design, from Johann Strauss to
Egon Schiele, from Gustav Mahler to Josef Hoffmann. This volume is
a treasure trove of photography from the last 175 years, following
the evolution of Vienna from imperial capital to modern metropolis.
Like a visual walk through time and cityscape, hundreds of
carefully curated pictures trace the developments in Vienna's built
environment and the cultural and historical trends they reflect,
whether the urban Gesamtkunstwerk of the 19th-century Ringstrasse
or the experiments of "Red Vienna" in the 1920s, when the city had
a social democrat government for the first time. Through these
remarkable photographs, we discover not only the great landmarks
and lesser-known corners of Vienna, but also the ubiquity and the
tumult of its history. We see the cultural blossoming of the fin de
siecle, when radical innovators such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele,
Adolf Loos, and Sigmund Freud turned Vienna into a "laboratory of
modernity"; the clashes of 1934; the ascent of Nazi dictatorship;
and the horrors writ by the Holocaust in what was once one of the
most populous and multi-ethnic cities on earth. More recently,
fascinating postwar photographs explore the Vienna of the Third
Man, at once a city in ruins and a hub for spies. The book closes
with the most recent pictures, celebrating the emergence of today's
Vienna-one of the most attractive cities in Europe, in which rich
history once again coexists with international flair and vibrant
contemporary culture.
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