Style and Seduction - Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin De SiFcle Vienna

In the first book to investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein and many others, Shapira reconsiders theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary creative stimulus for the Jewish contribution to Viennese modernism. Zusammenfassung In the first book to investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein and many others, Shapira reconsiders theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary creative stimulus for the Jewish contribution to Viennese modernism.

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• Authors: Elana Shapira
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781611689211
• ISBN: 978-1-61168-921-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Tauber Institute Series for th; Tauber Institute Series for th; Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries