The Fantastic Art of Vienna: Great and Timeless Paintings from a Realm of Laughter and Light, of Brooding, Darkness and Splendid Decadence

by Alessandra Comini

Art, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and illusion, sexuality and death, the external world and the internal self. Celebrated art historian Alessandra Comini explores in a lively, authoritative text the demonic origins of the 1000-year-old Habsburg Empire, easternmost outpost of Christendom against the dreaded Ottoman Turks. Escape from death encouraged a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632935864
• ISBN13: 9781632935861
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"