Vienna

I've been reading a lot about Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gustav Klimt, Oscar Kokoschka and Arnold Schoenberg among others. Playwrights, painters, musicians. Interesting all. While I knew the last three, the first two are fairly new to me, though I'm familiar with von Hofmannsthal's work with Strauss.

The artisitic classes tendancies towards a policy of escapism and deep attraction to the occult in fin de siecle Vienna is just what I need. With their notions that ideas objective meanings were misconceived and that the "modern" person must leave the moral systems of the past and create new meaning systems for the future. I have to ask myself why the artists of today are so darn boring!
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