Author: Johann Kräftner
Publisher: Wienand Verlag
ISBN: 9783868325126
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Principality of Liechtenstein in the heart of Europe is famous for its medieval castles and charming Alpine landscapes and villages. On the occasion of its 300th anniversary, the Albertina in Vienna is hosting a comprehensive exhibition. The works presented here illustrate the remarkable spectrum of Liechtenstein's collection policy. The unique holdings of the Princely Collections are thus presented for the first time in such detail in this two-volume publication.
From Rubens to Makart
The Austrian Mind
Author: William M. Johnston
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites.
The Portfolio
Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An artistic periodical.
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An artistic periodical.
The History of Modern Painting
Author: Richard Muther
Publisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Exposition Universelle, 1900
Author:
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Chefs-d'oeuvre: Applied Art: Germany, Austria, and Hungary
Author: Victor Champier
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Faking It!
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004106901
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A collection of eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles and in varied national contexts, using the concept of performance to gain greater insight.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004106901
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A collection of eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles and in varied national contexts, using the concept of performance to gain greater insight.
One Hundred Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Painting
Author: J. Eugene Reed
Publisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Publisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Gustav Mahler
Author: Jens Malte Fischer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300172192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources--some unavailable to previous biographers--and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close friend of Mahler, whose private journals provide insight into the composer's personal and professional lives and his creative process.Fischer explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic in his later years. He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism and American commercialism. "Gustav Mahler" is the best-sourced and most balanced biography available about the composer, a nuanced and intriguing portrait of his dramatic life set against the backdrop of early 20th century America and fin de siecle Europe.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300172192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources--some unavailable to previous biographers--and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close friend of Mahler, whose private journals provide insight into the composer's personal and professional lives and his creative process.Fischer explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic in his later years. He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism and American commercialism. "Gustav Mahler" is the best-sourced and most balanced biography available about the composer, a nuanced and intriguing portrait of his dramatic life set against the backdrop of early 20th century America and fin de siecle Europe.
A Short History of Art in Vienna
Author: Martina Pippal
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406467899
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406467899
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description