Social History of Fine Arts in Hungary, 1867–1918

Erika Szívós

Erika Szivos places the fine arts and their practitioners in the political, cultural, and social context of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. She investigates the influence of European patterns on the public role of the arts and the changing status of the artist in fin-de-siècle Hungary.

Related Subjects

• Art History
• European History

About the Author

Erika Szivos is assistant professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and lectures on central European social, cultural, and urban history. A post-graduate Fulbright scholar at Boston University, she has also received research grants from the Andrew C. Mellon Foundation and Aktion Österreich-Ungarn.

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