<BIRTH OF THE MODERN>: Vienna in 1900 was home to a thriving arts and intellectual culture that included many important thinkers and a substantial group of prominent artists, including the founder of the Secession Gustav Klimt. A common thread throughout music and the fine and decorative arts was the redefining of individual identity for the modern age, as the search for a specifically modern Viennese sense of self prompted a dialogue about ornamentation and inner truth in the arts of the age.

RONALD S. LAUDER

Preface

RENIEE PRICE

Foreword

JILL LLOYD AND CHRISTIAN NITT-DORRING

Introduction

PHILIPP BLOH

Rebelling in a World of Facades

Style and Identity in Vienna around 1900

JEAN CLAIR

A Skeptical Modernity

CHRISTIAN WITT-DORRING

Individuality in Viennese Modern Design

around 1900

Pro and Con

JILL LLOYD

Feminists and Femme Fatales

Representing Women in Turn-of-the Century Vienna

GEOFFREY HONES

Literature and Identity in Vienna 1900

Robert Musil, Hugo yon Hofmannsthal, and Arthur Schnitzler

CLAUDE CERNUSCHI

Depth and Surface, Will and Representation

Egon Schiele and Arthur Schopenhauer

PHILIPP BLOM

Freud's Lederhosen

Three Biographical Variations on the Theme

"Who Was a Jew in HaBsburg Vienna?"

CHRISTIAN NEIKOP

Ver Sacrum (1898-1903)

The Printed Face of the Vienna Secession

ALESSANDRA COMINI

National Idols, Private Identities

Music and Musicians in Imperial Vienna

Plates

Index

Photograph and Copyright Credits