Persistent Illusions: Visual Culture and Historical Memory in Interwar Hungary

by Nora Veszpremi

Persistent Illusions examines the visual representation of history in interwar Hungary, where interpretations of the past were suffused with references to the country's recent territorial loss. In these images of history, nineteenth-century themes and motifs took on new forms to promote twentieth-century political ideas through the new media of modernity.

N ra Veszpr mi illustrates how modernization created resilient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501782290
• ISBN13: 9781501782299
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 300 Pages