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The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In
the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and
workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and
intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function
of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of
fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafe served as a creative meeting
place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations
between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning
of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields
of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies
and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective
is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring
coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In
the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and
workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and
intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function
of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of
fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafe served as a creative meeting
place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations
between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning
of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields
of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies
and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective
is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring
coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
"Designs on Modernity" presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key
moment in attempts to update the image of Paris as "capital of the
19th century." At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs
et Industriels Modernes, Paris itself, as much as the commodity,
was put on show. Tag Gronberg focuses on the Exhibition as a set of
contesting representations of the modern city, stressing the
importance of consumption and display for concepts of urban
modernity. Here Le Corbusier's now famous Pavillon de L'Esprit
Nouveau with its Plan Voisin for the redesign of Paris confronted
another equally up-to-date city: Paris as "a woman's city," world
centre of fashion and shopping. Taking as her starting point one of
the most dramatic 1925 exhibits, the rue des Boutiques which
spanned the river Seine, Gronberg analyses the contemporary
significance of the small Parisian luxury shop. She shows how
boutiques, conceived both as urbanism and as advertising, redefined
Paris as the modern city.
An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siecleVienna
used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the
great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecleVienna, artists of
that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict
artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and
society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed
as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects'
shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent
dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to
the end of World War I. This is viewed as a time when the
avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a
more complex story of the time through thought-provoking texts by
numerous leading art historians. Their writings examine paintings
by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and
Egon Schiele alongside earlier works, blurring the
conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and
early-20th-century art, and revealing surprising continuities in
the production and consumption of portraits. This compelling book
features works not only by famous names but also by lesser-known
female and Jewish artists, giving a more complete picture of the
time. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale
University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London
(10/09/13-01/12/14)
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