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The Garden and the Workshop : Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest
A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Budapest produced such...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Budapest produced such luminaries as Bela Bartók, Georg Lukács, and Michael and Karl Polanyi. However, as Peter Hanák shows in these vignettes of Fin-de-Siecle life, the intellectual and artistic vibrancy common to the two cities emerged from deeply different civic cultures. Hanák surveys the urban development o. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400864836 |