Art, Culture, and National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First/Original. Hardcover. Teal cloth/boards; silver lettering. Color-illus. dj with teal/white lettering. Mylar cover. xv + 297 pp. with 51 bw images. NF/NF but art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks, including red stamps on all 3 page edges. Item #156854
ISBN: 9780521815659
This study examines the phenomenon of politicized art and its connections to modernism in eleven essays that focus on as many nations. An international team of authors explores the complex issues facing artists who helped form a distinct national identity to audiences at home and abroad. Their detailed case studies unravel the matrix of circumstances fostering nationalistic developments, thereby offering a more nuanced understanding of European art and culture circa 1900. Chapters include:
State galleries and the formation of national artistic identity in Spain, England, and France 1814-1851 / Janis A. Tomlinson --
The nation and the garden : England and the World's Fairs at the turn of the century / Anne Helmreich --
"Unsere Polen ..." : Polish artists and the Vienna secession, 1897-1904 / Anna Brzyski --
Pride and prejudice : Serge Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes, and the French public / Janet Kennedy --
Art and national identity in Wilhelmine Germany / Robin Lenman --
National Romanian architecture : building national identity / Carmen-Elena Popescu --
Hungarian self-representation in an international context : the Magyar exhibited at international expositions and world's fairs / Terri Switzer --
Nationalism and nationhood : late-nineteenth-century painting in Scotland / John Morrison --
Making family values : narratives of kinship and peasant life in Norwegian nationalism / Patricia G. Berman --
Educating a nation of patriots : mural paintings in turn of the century Swedish schools / Michelle Facos --
Swiss art and national identity at the turn of the twentieth century / Sharon L. Hirsh.
OCLC: 50503169
Price: $200.00