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  • Visions of the Future

    Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939

    by Matthew Rampley ...
    Some of the most striking examples of modernist architecture are churches, yet they have seldom been subject to extended critical analysis. In this book, Matthew Rampley provides just such an analysis, focusing on the Catholic Church in interwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.A powerful institution in the Habsburg Empire, the Catholic Church continued to be a central social, political, and ... Read more

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  • The Vienna School of Art History

    Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918

    by Matthew Rampley ...
    Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History is the first book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching position in the discipline was created, to 1918, the collapse of Austria-Hungary. It traces the emergence of art history as a discipline, the establishment of norms of scholarly inquiry, and the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Seductions of Darwin

    Art, Evolution, Neuroscience

    by Matthew Rampley ...
    The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these questions by exploring key areas where Darwinism, neuroscience, and art history intersect.Taking ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary

    Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, Nóra Veszprémi ...
    This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire.Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary traces the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire

    Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts

    by Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, Nóra Veszprémi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
    Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts) as well as its design school occupies a prominent place in the study.The book also gives equal attention to museums of design and applied arts in cities elsewhere in the Empire, such ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Germany

    Memories of a Nation

    by Neil MacGregor ...
    For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vienna

    A Cultural History

    by Nicholas Parsons ...
    Series series Cityscapes
    From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a 'hydrocephalus' cut off from its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi interlude, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

    Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried van der Will ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

    Edited by John Sandford ...
    With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world.With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Shona Kallestrup, Magdalena Kunińska, Mihnea Alexandru Mihail, Anna Adashinskaya, Cosmin Minea ...
    This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization.At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the ... Read more

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  • Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

    The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy

    Edited by Agatha Schwartz ...
    At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal, radical ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Style and Seduction

    Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna

    by Elana Shapira ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD