{"product_id":"vienna-around-1900-h-b","title":"Rainer Metzger: Vienna 1900 [2020] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: \"To every age its art - to every art its freedom;\" and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a \"laboratory of modernity,\" one which nurtured some of the greatest artistic innovators-from Egon Schiele's unflinching nude portraits to Gustav Klimt's decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, from the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha Moser's calendars adorned in golden deities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover the zeitgeist, the scandals, and the extraordinary protagonists in this introduction to a transformative epoch. Across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, we explore all the movers and shakers through insightful profiles and crisp double-page reproductions. Marking the centenary of the deaths of some of its brightest talents, this collection joins Vienna in its 2018 celebration of Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art History series features:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapproximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea detailed, illustrated introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metzger, Rainer","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44509318742306,"sku":"9783836567053","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/metzger-rainer-rainer-metzger-vienna-1900-2020-hardback-9783836567053-57850172113235.jpg?v=1726747507","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/vienna-around-1900-h-b","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}