Matthew Rampley is Chair of Art History at the University of Birmingham.

“This is the most commendable art-historical text to come my way in a long time, a major intellectual achievement on all fronts. Very much to his credit, Rampley writes in gracefully lucid language, something that cannot be said about many scholars attracted to this material.”—Michael Yonan Austrian History Yearbook

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Founding a Discipline: Liberalism and the Idea of Scientific Method2Questions of Method: From Positivism to the History of Spirit3Beyond Vienna: The Growth of Art History Across the Habsburg Monarchy4An Art History of Austria-Hungary? Patriotism and the Construction of National Historiography5Baroque Art and Architecture: A Contested Legacy6Vernacular Cultures and National Identities: The Politics of Folk Art7Readings of Modern Art: Historicism, Impressionism, Expressionism8Between East and West9Saving the Past: Conservation and the Cult of MonumentsEpilogue: Continuity and Rupture After 1918NotesBibliographyIndex

Matthew Rampley is Chair of Art History at the University of Birmingham.

“This is the most commendable art-historical text to come my way in a long time, a major intellectual achievement on all fronts. Very much to his credit, Rampley writes in gracefully lucid language, something that cannot be said about many scholars attracted to this material.”—Michael Yonan Austrian History Yearbook

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Founding a Discipline: Liberalism and the Idea of Scientific Method2Questions of Method: From Positivism to the History of Spirit3Beyond Vienna: The Growth of Art History Across the Habsburg Monarchy4An Art History of Austria-Hungary? Patriotism and the Construction of National Historiography5Baroque Art and Architecture: A Contested Legacy6Vernacular Cultures and National Identities: The Politics of Folk Art7Readings of Modern Art: Historicism, Impressionism, Expressionism8Between East and West9Saving the Past: Conservation and the Cult of MonumentsEpilogue: Continuity and Rupture After 1918NotesBibliographyIndex

Matthew Rampley is Chair of Art History at the University of Birmingham.

“This is the most commendable art-historical text to come my way in a long time, a major intellectual achievement on all fronts. Very much to his credit, Rampley writes in gracefully lucid language, something that cannot be said about many scholars attracted to this material.”—Michael Yonan Austrian History Yearbook

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Founding a Discipline: Liberalism and the Idea of Scientific Method2Questions of Method: From Positivism to the History of Spirit3Beyond Vienna: The Growth of Art History Across the Habsburg Monarchy4An Art History of Austria-Hungary? Patriotism and the Construction of National Historiography5Baroque Art and Architecture: A Contested Legacy6Vernacular Cultures and National Identities: The Politics of Folk Art7Readings of Modern Art: Historicism, Impressionism, Expressionism8Between East and West9Saving the Past: Conservation and the Cult of MonumentsEpilogue: Continuity and Rupture After 1918NotesBibliographyIndex