Vienna 1890 - 1920

Vienna 1890 - 1920Book blurb: Vienna, at the turn of the century, was a center for extravagant cultural achievement. Some of the most intellectually significant ideas and works of the twentieth century can be traced to Vienna in the decades preceding World War I. The disintegrating Austro Hungarian Empire provided a peculiarly propitious environment for the emergence of men of genius. In the visual arts there were Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka; in

revealing an incomparable talent of great originality

The essay wants above all to wander

directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick

which intriguingly referenced canonical texts in Zimbabwe and Africa

Despite his essential role in the postwar avant-garde and his continuous influence on the art of the following decades

Collected together

ABC Collection

but each day sees the pattern being drawn afresh

and a plethora of lesser-known names deserving of greater attention

40 x 46 x 15 cm

1968) is an Artist Trustee of the Tate Board and runs a nonprofit gallery for new or glossed-over artists of note at his studio in London

Published in conjunction with the exhibition