The garden and the workshop
essays on the cultural history of Vienna and Budapest
by Hanák, Péter.
In comparing the two cities, Hanak notes that Vienna, famed for its spacious parks and gardens, was often characterized as a "garden" of esoteric culture. Budapest, however, was a dense city surrounded by factories, whose cultural leaders referred to the offices and cafes where they met as "workshops." These differences were reflected, he argues, in the contrast between Vienna's aesthetic and individualistic culture and Budapest's more moralistic and socially engaged approach.
Like Carl Schorske's famous Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Hanak's book paints a remarkable portrait of turn-of-the-century life in Central Europe. Its particular focus on mass culture and everyday life offers important new insights into cultural currents that shaped the course of the twentieth century.
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The garden and the workshop: essays on the cultural history of Vienna and Budapest
1998, Princeton University Press
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0691015546 9780691015545
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-240) and index.
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