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During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siècle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects' shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to the end of the First World War. Th
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- Author
- Gemma Blackshaw
- Publisher
- London: National Gallery Company; New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781857095616
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Art, Portraits, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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