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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480723103321

Autore

Rampley Matthew

Titolo

The Vienna School of art history : empire and the politics of scholarship, 1847-1918 / / Matthew Rampley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-271-07011-0

0-271-06261-4

0-271-06260-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Disciplina

707.22

Soggetti

Art historians - Austria

Art and society - Austria - History - 19th century

Art - Political aspects - Austria - History - 20th century

Art - Political aspects - Austria - History - 19th century

Art and society - Austria - History - 20th century

Art - Austria - Historiography

Electronic books.

Austria Politics and government 1867-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Founding a discipline : liberalism and the idea of scientific method -- Questions of method : from positivism to the history of spirit -- Beyond Vienna : the growth of art history across the Habsburg monarchy -- An art history of Austria-Hungary? patriotism and the construction of national historiography -- Baroque art and architecture : a contested legacy -- Vernacular cultures and national identities : the politics of folk art -- Readings of modern art : historicism, impressionism, expressionism -- Between East and West -- Saving the past : conservation and the cult of monuments -- Epilogue : continuity and rupture after 1918.

Sommario/riassunto

"Analyzes the emergence and development of art history as a discipline



in Austria-Hungary. Focuses on the ways in which ideas about art and its history became intertwined with political and social identity, and on the cultural politics that shaped the final years of the Habsburg Empire"--Provided by publisher.