Title The museum age in Austria-Hungary : art and empire in the long nineteenth century / Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, and Nóra Veszprémi

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : museums and cultural politics in the Habsburg world / Matthew Rampley -- The museological landscape of Austria-Hungary / Matthew Rampley -- The museum and the city : art, municipal programs, and urban agendas / Markian Prokopovych -- Visions in stone : museums and their architecture / Matthew Rampley -- Curators, conservators, scholars : the rise of the museum professions / Nóra Veszprémi -- "Uniques" and stories : principles and practices of display / Nóra Veszprémi -- Museums and their publics : visitors, societies, and the press / Markian Prokopovych -- Epilogue : modernity and regime's end / Matthew Rampley Summary "This important 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 Empire. Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary traces the evolution of museum culture over the long nineteenth century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art collections in the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery open to the public) to the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Drawing on source materials from across the empire, the authors reveal how the rise of museums and display was connected to growing tensions between the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a cosmopolitan and multinational social, political, and cultural identity, on the one hand, and, on the other, the rights of national groups and cultures to self-expression. They demonstrate the ways in which museum collecting policies, practices of display, and architecture engaged with these political agendas and how museums reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic identity, emerging forms of professional practice, the production of knowledge, and the changing composition of the public sphere."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 21, 2022) Subject Art museums -- Austria -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- Political aspects -- Austria -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- Poland -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- Czech Republic -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- Croatia -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- Hungary -- History -- 19th century Art museums -- Political aspects Art museums Poland Hungary Czech Republic Croatia Austria Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Prokopovych, Markian, 1972- author. Veszprémi, Nóra, author. ISBN 9780271089041 0271089040 9780271089065 0271089067

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