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36 Sektion I: Themen und Medien der Repräsentation to achieve, or unrealistic entirely. Yet it was possible to materialize them quietly in things. The more distant the desire, the more the abstracted yet concretized material- ity of the object could be called upon to convey it. Endnotes 1 For a recent assessment of Vienna’s museums, see the multi-author forum on Museums and Material Culture in Vienna, in: Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015); see especially Julie Johnson, ‘The Streets of Vienna are Paved with Culture, the Streets of Other Cities with Asphalt’. Museums and Material Culture in Vienna – A Comment, in: Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015), 89–96. 2 Norbert Elias, Die höfische Gesellschaft. Untersuchungen zur Soziologie des Königtums und der höfischen Aristokratie, Berlin 1969; Hubert Christian Ehalt, Ausdrucksformen absolutistischer Herrschaft. Der Wiener Hof im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Sozial- und wirtschaftshistorische Studien 14), Munich 1980. 3 Peter Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV, New Haven-London 1992; Louis Marin, Le portrait du roi, Paris 1981. 4 Michael Yonan, Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art, University Park 2011. 5 Out of a large and growing literature, see especially Lorraine Daston (Ed.), Things that Talk. Object Lessons from Art and Science, New York 2004; Paula Findlen (Ed.), Early Modern Things. Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800, London 2013; Bill Brown (Ed.), Things, Chicago-London 2004. On material culture and monarchy specifically, see Eva Giloi, Monarchy, Myth, and Material Cul- ture in Germany 1750–1950, Cambridge 2011. The role of the object in art-historical inquiry was also the theme of the 2012 CIHA Congress: G. Ulrich Grossmann/Petra Krutisch (Eds.), The Challenge of the Object/Die Herausforderung des Objekts. 33. Internationaler Kunsthistoriker- Kongress, Nürnberg, 15.–20. Juli 2012, Nuremberg 2014. 6 The anthropological perspective is summarized in Christopher Tilley et al (Eds.), Handbook of Ma- terial Culture, London 2006. A more archaeological slant is offered in Dan Hicks/Mary C. Beaudry (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, Oxford 2010. 7 Daniel Miller, Material Culture and Mass Consumption, London 1997. 8 Daniel Miller, Material Cultures. Why Some Things Matter, Chicago 1998; Daniel Miller (Ed.), Materiality, Durham 2005; and Daniel Miller/Sophie Woodward, Blue Jeans. The Art of the Or- dinary, Berkeley 2012. 9 Sandra H. Dudley, Museum Materialities. Objects, Engagements, Interpretations, London 2010. 10 Jules David Prown, Mind in Matter. An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method, in: Winterthur Portfolio 17/1 (Spring 1982), 1–19; reprinted in: Art as Evidence. Writings on Art and Material Culture, New Haven-London 2002, 69–95. 11 Prown, Mind in Matter (as note 10), 8–10. 12 Prown, Mind in Matter (as note 10), 3. 13 Michael Yonan, Portable Dynasties. Imperial Gift-Giving at the Court of Vienna in the Eighteenth Century, in: The Court Historian 14/2 (December 2009), 177–188. On Viennese relations with Charles de Lorraine’s court in Brussels, see Michèle Galland, Charles de Lorraine, Gouverneur Général des Pays-Bas autrichiens, Brussels 1993. 14 Claire Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuffboxes, 1730–1830, London 1966; Lorenz