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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.
About the author
Matthew Rampley is Principal Investigator for the research project Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918–1939, funded by the European Research Council, and Professor of Art History at Masaryk University. His recent publications include The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience and The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918, both published by Penn State University Press.Markian Prokopovych is Assistant Professor of History at Durham University and the author of In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884–1918 and Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772–1914.Nóra Veszprémi is a Research Fellow on the project Continuity/Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918–1939, funded by the European Research Council, at Masaryk University. She is the author of Fölfújt pipere és költői mámor: Romantika és művészeti közízlés a reformkori Magyarországon [Overblown makeup and poetic frenzy: Romanticism and popular taste in Hungary, 1820–1850].
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.
