Pre-WWI Vienna’s stylistic diversity grew from crisis over shifting space and time

Evidence

The free-flowing sensuality of Klimt, the agonized expressionism of Egon Schiele, the rigorous rejection of ornament and the rational shaping of space of Adolf Loos … all clinging together in the midst of a crisis of bourgeois culture, caught in its own rigidities but faced with whirlwind shifts in the experience of space and time. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1746

Categorization

• XREF: Shifts in the experience of space and time as a driver of cultural crisis — this is the seed of the time-space compression thesis Harvey develops throughout. — connects to: Vienna’s cultural flowering emerged from the crisis of a weak liberal bourgeoisie — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 206; Modernism emerged from the risky space between past, present, and political future — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 210; Modernism flowered between a usable past, uncertain present, and open future. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 180

Broader Connections

• Modernism emerged from the risky space between past, present, and political future #corroborates (0.82) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 210
• Modernism flowered between a usable past, uncertain present, and open future. #corroborates (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 180