Beyond the Aesthetic Garden: Politics and Culture on the Margins of Fin-de Siècle Vienna
Author(s)
Spector, Scott
Abstract
A critique of architecture, politics and culture as expressions of material culture and commodity. Author argues what is ideologically at stake in a historiographical construction that identifies Central European modernist aesthetic innovation as an escape from history and politics? Examines Schorske’s interdisciplinary project of contextualization is peculiar insofar as his diagnosis is that culture became increasingly isolated from political life.
