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Aesthetics and Modernity: Art and the Amelioration of Change in Fin-De-Siècle Austria
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2009
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Austria at the turn of the century was a country in which change was more commonly tolerated than encouraged. Its late economic growth coming at the end of the 1880s signalled the transition from an agrarian to a more industrially based society. This type of change after a long period of semi-depression dating from the crash of 1873 was looked upon with favor and encouraged by the state, banks, and entrepreneurs. It obviously meant increased prosperity and fit in well with the progressivistic attitude of the times, but less obviously meant the growth of urban blight and social disruption.
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