Orlando Figes and the beginning of European culture | European Lab 2019 | Live Talk | BOZAR

The author traces how European cosmopolitan culture took shape from the second half of the 19th century. It is very appropriate that Figes is coming to Brussels to present his book – a work in which he postulates that ‘European culture’ began on 14 June 1846. It was on that day that a train first travelled from Paris to Brussels and a new era began on the European continent. Information and culture could now be exchanged more easily and people could discover their own ‘Europeanness’ in the values contained in books, newspapers, operas and works of art. By 1900 all educated Europeans were reading the same novels, going to see the same operas and admiring the same paintings. The European ‘canon’, which forms the basis of what we today refer to as ‘high’ culture, took shape – and not only in Europe but wherever in the world Europeans settled.

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