Viennese CafA (c) and Fin-de-SiAcle Culture
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- ISBN 9781782389262
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
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 an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange. Tag Gronberg is Tutor for Postgraduate Research in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London. She was a member of the curatorial team for the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World 1914 - 1939 (2006). She is the author of Vienna - City of Modernity, 1890 - 1914 (Peter Lang 2007) and Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris (Manchester University Press 1998). Simon Shaw-Miller is Professor in the History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. His publications include: Visible Deeds of Music: Music and Art from Wagner to Cage (Yale University Press 2002), Samuel Palmer Revisited (co-edited, Ashgate 2010) and Eye hEar: The Visual in Music (Ashgate 2013). He won the Prix Ars Electronica Media.Arts: Research Award in 2009.
