Article ID: CBB001421587

From Domestic Designs to Global Living: Imperial Innovations at the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, 1864--1914 (2013)

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The Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, the first of its kind on the European continent, gave equal status to domestic crafts from the provinces and the cosmopolitan luxuries of the Habsburg dynasty. The museum was thus assigned the task of forging a cohesive imperial identity, becoming the tool with which Austria-Hungary could assert itself as an effective imperial power, both locally and globally. By considering three significant exhibitions in the first 50 years of the museum's history --- the Vienna World's Fair in 1873, the exhibition of Austrian Cottage Industry and Folk Art in 1905, and the exhibition that accompanied the 9th International Housing Conference in 1910 --- this article investigates Austria's transition from the classic model of mid-nineteenth-century imperialism to a uniquely pan-regional empire focused on notions of domesticity and cultural preservation, turning ultimately to the Socialist concerns that would form the basis of the post-imperial Austrian state. Keywords: Habsburg Empire ; Exhibition history ; Alois Riegl ; Museum of Applied Arts Vienna ; Design history ; Folk art

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Authors & Contributors
Surman, Jan
Vu, Anthony K.
Leoni, Diego
Gal Hertz
Allen, Jasmine
Mangione, Salvatore
Concepts
Museums
Exhibitions and fairs
Imperialism
National identity
Science and art
Technology and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Enlightenment
18th century
17th century
Places
Austria
Austro-hungary
Great Britain
Hungary
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Crystal Palace
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