10

RONALD S. LAUDER

Preface

11

RENÉE PRICE AND WILFRIED SEIPEL

Foreword

12

GÜNTHER STEFAN ASENBAUM

AND PAUL ASENBAUM

Foreword

13

CHRISTIAN WITT-DÔRRING

Introduction

NARRATIVE TEXTS BY MICHAEL HUEY

16

The Turning Point

20 Neoclassicism

The Reception of Antiquity

38 Neoclassicism

Formai Reduction 64

Neoclassicism

Geometry as Language of the Enlightenment

90

From an Ideal of Simplicity to the

Modern Commodity

146

Mobility as Maxim of Modern Society

176

Style & Self-Expression

282

Vienna's Experiment of Modernity

336

MARKUS BRÜDERLIN

Architectural Abstraction and the Vision of

the Modern

343

MICHAEL HUEY

The Aestheticized Individual

Subjects and Their Objects in

Turn-of-the-Century Vienna

354

J. S. MARCUS

In Ail Directions

Travel and its Meanings in a Modernizing Europe

363

CHRISTOPHER WILK

Looking at the Past through Modernist Eyes

368

JOSEPH RYKWERT

Moist and Dry

372

ELISABETH SCHMUTTERMEIER

Viennese Silver

A Stylistic Survey

375

WILLIAM D. GODSEY, JR.

A "Bourgeois Century"?

Society and High Culture in Vienna 1780-1920

380

SYLVIA MATTL-WURM

Creative Density

386

DIETHER HALAMA

Biographies of Viennese

Gold- and Silversmiths

394

Selected Bibliography

396

Index

398

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