Vienna is the capital of the new thinking with Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Loos, Wittgenstein, Tito, Trotsky and Kokoschka all in residence. Get money off this title at the Independent book shop He contrasts grand public events, such as the Armory Show in New York and the Paris premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, with small, private moments such as Matisse bringing the convalescing Picasso a bunch of flowers. Illies, a German journalist and writer, has gathered diverse fragments of information from the year and fashioned them into a diary of a world embracing new ideas in art, science and psychiatry. As the long 19th century was finally drawing to a close and another war was brewing, cultural life in 1913, and in Europe in particular, was busy and vibrant.
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