Viennese Silver : An Adventure in Time 1800-1900

by Bruderlin, Markus

• ISBN13: 9783775713177
• ISBN10: 3775713174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

To be listed with other Neue book (Lotz:Bohemian g

Table of Contents

Preface	10	(11)
Ronald S. Lauder
Foreword	11	(1)
Renee Price
Wilfried Seipel
Foreword	12	(1)
Gunther Stefan Asenbaum
Paul Asenbaum
Introduction	13	(3)
Christian Witt-Dorring
The Turning Point	16	(4)
Michael Huey
Neoclassicism	20	(18)
The Reception of Antiquity
Neoclassicism	38	(26)
Formal Reduction
Neoclassicism	64	(26)
Geometry as Language of the Enlightenment
From an Ideal of Simplicity to the Modern Commodity	90	(56)
Mobility as Maxim of Modern Society	146	(30)
Style & Self-Expression	176	(106)
Vienna's Experiment of Modernity	282	(54)
Architectural Abstraction and the Vision of the Modern	336	(7)
Markus Bruderlin
The Aestheticized Individual	343	(11)
Michael Huey
Subjects and Their Objects in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna
In All Directions	354	(9)
J. S. Marcus
Travel and its Meanings in a Modernizing Europe
Looking at the Past through Modernist Eyes	363	(5)
Christopher Wilk
Moist and Dry	368	(4)
Joseph Rykwert
Viennese Silver	372	(3)
Elisabeth Schmuttermeier
A Stylistic Survey
A ``Bourgeois Century''?	375	(5)
William D. Godsey, Jr.
Society and High Culture in Vienna 1780--1920
Creative Density	380	(6)
Sylvia Mattl-Wurm
Biographies of Viennese Gold- and Silversmiths	386	(8)
Diether Halama
Selected Bibliography	394	(2)
Index	396	(2)
Photography and Copyright Credits	398