Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe

"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. Even though based on the values of old elites, the newspaper discourse disposed potential to integrate the middle class public and to smuggle novelties by exposing old values"--Back cover