“Ahead of a major new exhibition of portraits from turn-of-the-century Vienna, the award-winning writer Edmund de Waal reveals his own family’s intimate links to the city.” >full text & photo album (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2013
Ill. above: Portrait of Empress Elisabeth (1899) by Gyula Benczúr
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“A brush with the past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria-Hungary, cultural history, Edmund de Waal, exhibition, Gret Britain, Vienna 1900 on 1 October 2013 by delclem“What’s the big idea?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Gret Britain, historiography, history on 8 October 2012 by delclem
“So-called big history has been inhospitable to the questions of meaning and intention so central to intellectual history – isn’t it time for a reconciliation?”
Speech by David Armitage
(c) TLS, 2012
delirium clemens 