2009-03-01
Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Sofia around 1900 [Sources for City and Art in SEE, 1850-1950, No. II]
posted by istanbul 16 years ago
Sources for City and Art in SEE, 1850-1950 continues: As I have noted in my article in the Ethnologia Balkanica of 2006 (access via CEEOL), there have been few relatively efforts to view the development of Southeast Europe’s cities around 1900 in a comparative perspective rather than in isolation. This, I argued,...
New on [BalkanCities]: "Sources for City and Art in SEE, 1850-1950"
posted by istanbul 16 years ago
For already quite a while I have contemplated posting here, at least once in a while, excerpts from texts dealing with "City and Art in SEE" written at a time, roughly 1850-1950, which proved crucial in the genesis of our modern understanding of these matters. Of interest in this regard are, inter alia, early histories, travelogues, reviews, newspaper articles, etc. We shall begin this series with...
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