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The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary - Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary - Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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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 evolution of museum culture over the long nineteenth
century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art collections in
the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery open to the public) to the
dissolution of Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Drawing
on source materials from across the empire, the authors reveal how
the rise of museums and display was connected to growing tensions
between the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a
cosmopolitan and multinational social, political, and cultural
identity, on the one hand, and, on the other, the rights of
national groups and cultures to self-expression. They demonstrate
the ways in which museum collecting policies, practices of display,
and architecture engaged with these political agendas and how
museums reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic identity,
emerging forms of professional practice, the production of
knowledge, and the changing composition of the public sphere.
Original in its approach and sweeping in scope, this fascinating
study of the museum age of Austria-Hungary will be welcomed by
students and scholars interested in the cultural and art history of
Central Europe.
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