Tough article. Sounds like in the early 1900s, Vienna faced the rise of fascism and the fall of the "Liberal" order. The bourgeouise, mostly liberals, began to

Tough article. Sounds like in the early 1900s, Vienna faced the rise of fascism and the fall of the "Liberal" order. The bourgeouise, mostly liberals, began to use art discourse as a means of secretly discussing their discontent with the political situation. Artists like Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus, and other Vienna-hating Viennese thus criticized, through their art, the artistic circles of contemporary Vienna.