"A brilliant book by a Nobel Prize winner, "The Age of Insight" takes readers to Vienna in 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind--our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions--and how mi…
A revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration, so much of modern art and thought was born.
A revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration, so much of modern art and thought was born.
The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, whose celebrated paintings and murals are widely regarded as modern masterpieces of twentieth century art. The Masters of Art Series presents the world's first digital e-Art books, allowin…
The Palais Stoclet and the Kabarett Fledermaus. The reult is a fascinating documentary study of the successes and failures, hopes and fears of the members of an artistic movement which is much admired today."
Italian Paintings. Florentine and Tuscan, mid-13th-mid-17th century. Sienese, 14th-mid-16th century. Venetian, mid-14th-early 17th century. Venetian, late 17th-18th century. Lombard, Ligurian, and Piedmontese, 14th-18th century. Emilian and Romagnole, 14th-mid-17th century. Roma…
"Human Dispositions explores new conventions for posing and positioning human figures in pictorial, architectural, and theatrical space in Europe in the decades leading up to WWI. The author contends that questions of "disposition" are vital to understanding a key transitional p…
