The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of by Matthew Rampley

By Matthew Rampley

Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna university of paintings History is the 1st e-book in over seventy-five years to review intensive and in context the practices of artwork historical past from 1847, the yr the 1st instructing place within the self-discipline was once created, to 1918, the cave in of Austria-Hungary. It lines the emergence of artwork background as a self-discipline, the institution of norms of scholarly inquiry, and the involvement of artwork historians in wider debates concerning the cultural and political identification of the monarchy.

The so-called Vienna institution performs the critical position within the learn, yet Rampley additionally examines the formation of artwork heritage in different places in Austria-Hungary. positioned within the Habsburg imperial capital, Vienna artwork historians usually turned entangled in debates that have been of value to artwork historians in different places within the Empire, and Rampley can pay specific realization to those components of overlapping curiosity. He additionally analyzes the methodological techniques for which the Vienna university used to be renowned. Rampley focuses so much absolutely, even though, at the better political and ideological context of the perform of paintings history—particularly the way art-historical debates served as proxies for wider arguments over the political, social, and cultural lifetime of the Habsburg Empire.

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