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Article: European Culture: A Contemporary Companion.
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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Cassell's new guidebook to European culture tries to do something that is not impossible but exceedingly difficult to achieve. It selects over a thousand European cultural personalities who are worthy of a biographical entry because of their significant contribution to that amorphous concept |contemporary culture'. These are, on the whole, people active in the arts, the theatre and cinema, also in architecture, but important scientists (some at least) are added for good measure. So the book may be regarded as a sort of incomplete Who's Who crossed with a What's What in European Culture since World War II.
Admittedly, this Companion pays more than usual attention ...