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Book SynopsisThis co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schönberg, Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and café culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clément Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Brussels 1900 Vienna: Cultural Transfers 1880–1930 Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer and Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 1 Staging Modernisms 1 The Power of Retheatricalization and Depersonalization Maurice Maeterlinck and Hugo von Hofmannsthal Anke Bosse 2 Viennese Theatre Critics on Viennese Maeterlinck Productions Sigurd Paul Scheichl 3 Arthur Schnitzler and Theatre in Belgium: 1900–1930 Piet Defraeye PART 2 Transpositions 4 Literary Exchanges from Vienna to Brussels 1880–1920 Hubert Roland 5 Stefan Zweig as a Mediator and Translator of Emile Verhaeren’s Poetry Norbert Bachleitner 6 Concepts of Exoticism in Brussels and Vienna around 1900 Szilvia Ritz 7 Parallel Campaigns of Cultural Renewal Art Nouveau, Robert Musil, and The Man Without Qualities Aniel Guxholli PART 3 Transformations 8 Belgian Artists and the Secessionist Battle for Modern Art Inga Rossi-Schrimpf 9 Another Modernity? Viennese Art Criticism and the Reception of Belgian Arts and Architecture around 1900 Sylvie Arlaud 10 Fernand Khnopff, a Painter Columnist in the Viennese Press A London–Vienna Connection via Brussels Clément Dessy 11 Kinderkunst between Vienna and Brussels 1900 Child Art, Primitivism, and Patronage Megan Brandow-Faller 12 Between Brussels and Vienna Frans Masereel’s Transnational Wordless Narratives Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 4 Resonances 13 Arnold Schoenberg, La Jeune Belgique, and the Dialectics of (Viennese) Modernism Alexander Carpenter 14 Parallels and Intervals Violinists Intersecting with Modernity Guillaume Tardif PART 5 Café and Psyche 15 About Well-Lit Hullaballoos and Suffocating Air Senses in the Brussels and Viennese Cafés at the Fin-de-Siècle Hans Vandevoorde 16 Psychoanalysts Through Translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879–1924) —— Anna Freud (1895–1982) Birgit Lang Index
