Volume 33, Number 14 · September 25, 1986
MOMA's Vienna
By Carl E. Schorske
Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture & Design 21, 1986.
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. New York, July 3–October, Catalog by Kirk Varnedoe
264 pp., $19.50 (paper)
One enters the Vienna show at the Museum of Modern art through a long corridor that seems low-key, even colorless. Be not deceived. Like everything else in this brilliant, coherent exhibition, it is carefully thought through. The corridor is composed like an overture in graphics to open the viewer's senses to the range of fin-de-siècle Vienna's burgeoning visual culture.
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