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Vienna 1900: Art, Life & Culture

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Although I've seen other books on this subject matter and they're more the "coffee table" size, this book is filled to the brim with a gorgeous selection of pictures and photos. Also; the narrative - which is quite substantial - is very interesting and informative.

Excellent Book for a student or anyone interested in this time period. I got it for my architectural history project and it had incredible resources to get it done. Very beautiful book.

There is much to admire in Vienna 1900, but the author should have given credit to Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna as the inspiration for this book. This seems to be a trend in publishing. A writer finds a subject that has already been covered in another book published some time ago,and then, writes his own book, giving it a very similar but not identical title, and then proceeds to cover the same material without mentioning the original. Then, to field any criticism that he failed to mention the original, he puts the author's name in either the middle of his bibliography, where no one will notice it, or mentions him in a footnote. I find this practice to be reprehensible. Publishers should take more responsibility than they do in this regard. A failure to do so will undermine their credibility entirely. Christian Brandstatter should have known better, even if he is from Vienna and Schorske is not. That doesn't give him license to ignore a superior work.