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Author:

Rampley, Matthew, author.

Title:

The museum age in Austria-Hungary : art and empire in the long nineteenth century / Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, and Nora Veszpremi.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

Art museums--Austria--History--19th century.
Art museums--History--Austria--History--19th century.
Art museums--Poland--History--19th century.
Art museums--Czech Republic--History--19th century.
Art museums--Croatia--History--19th century.
Art museums--Hungary--History--19th century.
Art museums.
Art museums--Political aspects.
Austria.
1800-1899
History.

Other Authors:

Prokopovych, Markian, 1972- author.
Veszpremi, Nora, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : museums and cultural politics in the Habsburg world / Matthew Rampley -- The museological landscape of Austria-Hungary / Matthew Rampley -- The museum and the city : art, municipal programs, and urban agendas / Markian Prokopovych -- Visions in stone : museums and their architecture / Matthew Rampley -- Curators, conservators, scholars : the rise of the museum professions / Nora Veszpremi -- "Uniques" and stories : principles and practices of display / Nora Veszpremi -- Museums and their publics : visitors, societies, and the press / Markian Prokopovych -- Epilogue : modernity and regime's end / Matthew Rampley.

Summary:

"A critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary, examining 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 state"-- Provided by publisher.
"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."-- Back cover.

ISBN:

0271087102
9780271087108

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1191240796

LCCN:

2020055258

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)