Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis

This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938.

Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism, rural exoticism, gender, and ethnic diversity, the book offers a fresh perspective on Central European art and visual culture. It pays particular attention to Austria, a country often ignored in histories of modernism in Central Europe, yet ...