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The Viennese CafA (c) and Fin-de-SiAcle Culture
Charlotte Ashby (Ed.)
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Paperback. The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Editor(s): Ashby, Charlotte; Gronberg, Tag; Shaw-Miller, Simon. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafe served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna 1900. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A ... Read more
The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafe served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna 1900. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Condition
New
Weight
375g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782389262
SKU
V9781782389262
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About Charlotte Ashby (Ed.)
Charlotte Ashby is a Lecturer in Art and Design History at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese Cafe Project at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she curated the exhibition Vienna Cafe 1900 at the Royal College of Art and co-convened the conference The Viennese Cafe as ... Read more
Reviews for The Viennese CafA (c) and Fin-de-SiAcle Culture
List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Charlotte Ashby Chapter 1. The Cafes of Vienna: Space and Sociability Charlotte Ashby Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Cafe Griensteidl and the Cafe Central Gilbert Carr Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and Modernity Steven Beller Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism Tag ... Read more