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The Garden and the Workshop
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 Béla Bartók, Georg Lukács, and Michael and Karl Polanyi. However, as Péter Hanák shows in these vignettes of Fin-de-Siécle life, the intellectual and artistic vibrancy common to the two cities emerged from deeply different civic cultures. Hanák surveys the urban development of the two cities and reviews the effects of modernization on various aspects of their cultures. He exa...
A History of Hungary
Surveys Hungary's development from prehistory to the postcommunist era
A History of Hungary
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One Thousand Years
In this unique fusion of politics, society, and culture, scholars address such topics as the migration and settlement, the founding of the Hungarian state, the flourishing of the medieval Hungarian kingdom and its subsequent decline under the Ottoman conquest, and the periodic wars of independence to throw off Ottoman and Hapsburg dominion. Turning to the modern era, scholars address the social reform movement in the nineteenth century leading to the rise of the middle class and to the drive toward modernization, as well as the development from popular democracy to socialism in the aftermath of wars and revolution.
Sacred Spring
"Students of modernism, the arts, and European cultural history will find that Sacred Spring offers an intriguing perspective on their subjects. The book will also appeal to readers interested in the intersection of culture and faith, in the connection between the arts and the sacred."--BOOK JACKET.
Bartók and His World
Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a rapidly growing critical and analytical literature. Bartók was born in Hungary and made his home there for all but his last five years, when he resided in the United States. As a result, many aspects of his life and work have been accessible only to readers of Hungarian. The main goal of this volume is to provide English-speaking audiences with new insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary. Part I begins with an essay by Leon Botstein that places Bartók in a large historical and cultural conte...
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