The Viennese CafA (c) and Fin-de-SiAcle Culture
Simon Shaw-Miller editor Charlotte Ashby editor Tag Gronberg editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Published:1st Jun '15
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Charlotte Ashby Chapter 1. The Cafes of Vienna: Space and Sociability Charlotte Ashby Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Cafe Griensteidl and the Cafe Central Gilbert Carr Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe and Modernity Steven Beller Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism Tag Gronberg Chapter 5. Between 'The House of Study' and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Cafe as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism Shachar Pinsker Chapter 6. Michalik's cafe in Krakow: Cafe and Caricature as Media of Modernity Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Chapter 7. The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse Ines Sabotic Chapter 8. Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction Mary Costello Chapter 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity Jeremy Aynsley Chapter 10. The Cliche of the Viennese Cafe as an Extended Living-room: Formal Parallels and Differences Richard Kurdiovsky Chapter 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud's Vienna and Virginia Woolf's London Edward Timms Bibliography Index
ISBN: 9781782389262
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 349g
256 pages