The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest

by Péter Hanák

Book Overview

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Budapest produced such luminaries as B la Bart k, Georg Luk cs, and Michael and Karl Polanyi. However, as P ter Han k shows in these vignettes of Fin-de-Si cle life, the intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015546
• ISBN13: 9780691015545
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.0"