The Austrian Cultural Forum London
takes pleasure in inviting you to a book launch
Tuesday 24 November 2009, 7pm
Interwar Vienna
Culture between Tradition
and Modernity
Edited by Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman
Speakers: Judith Beniston, Jon Hughes, Edward Timms, Robert Vilain
Although beset by social, political, and economic
instabilities, interwar Vienna was an exhilarating
place, with pioneering developments in the arts and
innovations in the social sphere. This volume of new
essays stretches disciplinary boundaries to consider
the cultural and social movements that shaped the
city. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
resulted not in an abandonment of the arts, but in
new forms of expression. The city’s culture was caught
between extremes, from neo-positivism to cultural
pessimism, Catholic mysticism to Austro-Marxism,
late Enlightenment liberalism to rabid antisemitism.
Concentrating on the paradoxes and often productive
tensions that these created, the volume’s twelve essays
explore achievements and anxieties in fields ranging
from modern dance, theater, music, film, and literature
to social, cultural, and racial policy.
Entry is free, but seating is limited
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www.austria.org.uk/culture
Austrian Cultural Forum London
28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ
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