Bright lights, brilliant minds : a tale of three cities. Vienna 1908 /
Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, a city of amazing creativity and dangerous tension. This was the year Gustav Klimt painted his masterpiece The Kiss, Sigmund Freud revealed the Oedipus complex, Egon Schiele produced startling pictures of humanity stripped to the bare essentials and bo...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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London, England :
British Broadcasting Corporation,
2015.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, a city of amazing creativity and dangerous tension. This was the year Gustav Klimt painted his masterpiece The Kiss, Sigmund Freud revealed the Oedipus complex, Egon Schiele produced startling pictures of humanity stripped to the bare essentials and both music and architecture took a bold step in a radical new direction. But it was also the year a struggling young artist named Adolf Hitler arrived in the city, a year that would put Vienna and Europe on the road to destruction. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed February 09, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (52 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:52:19 |