Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis

This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938.

List of contents

1. Dreams of Autonomy: Regionalism as Post-War Regeneration 2. Constructing the Countryside: Regionalism's Rise to Soft Diplomacy 3. Paradise of Leisure: The Modern Countryside in Tourism, Fashion, and Popular Culture 4. Rural Utopia: Heimat Photography between Popular Nationalism and Modernist Experimentation 5. Socialist Dystopia? Leftist Visual Culture and Rural Margins as a Political Battleground 6. Rural Exotic: The Countryside as a Place of Difference

About the author

Julia Secklehner is a Research Fellow at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.

Summary

This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Secklehner
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032658810
• ISBN: 978-1-03-265881-0
• No. of pages: 180
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; austria, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, History of Art, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1930 to c 1939, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)