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ART, DESIGN, AND ARCHITECTURE IN CENTRAL EUROPE, 1890-1920
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Elizabeth Clegg |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
0300111207 |
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9780300111200 |
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 2006 |
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The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series |
Pages: |
356 |
Description: |
Features an account of art, design, and architecture in the Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its last decades. The author integrates political and cultural developments, comparing the situation in eight cities, highlighting the contrasts, rivalries, parallels, and interconnections across this region. |
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In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of political and cultural developments. Comparing the situation in eight cities-among them Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb-the author highlights contrasts, rivalries, parallels, and interconnections across this colorful and important region. The book deals with all the chief ethnic/national categories of Austria-Hungary and embraces all the visual arts. Focusing on their public display, appraisal, and consumption, Clegg shows how the harmonious/antagonistic coexistence of institutions, publications, and events gave rise to the dynamic art life of a period that would end in a turning point for Central Europe. As vividly revealed, this was a time and place marked by a simultaneous fear and celebration of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity that has enormous international resonance a century later. |
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250 b-w + 50 color illus. |
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US |
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Yale University Press |
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