Artists And Nobility In East Central Europe

Download or read book Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe written by Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosálová and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the collective career of the artistic profession in Brno and Vilnius and the necessity to copy the behavior of the elites of the Old Regime. The "noble" values, which shaped the artistic careers in the 19th century press, were charity, good taste, cosmopolitism and patriotism. The newspaper discourse disposed potential to integrate and to smuggle novelties by exposing old values.