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Author:

Brandow-Faller, Megan, author.

Title:

The female secession : art and the decorative at the Viennese Women's Academy / Megan Brandow-Faller.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xvi, 260 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Wiener Frauenakademie--History.
Women artists--History--Vienna--Vienna--History--20th century.
Women artists--History--Vienna--Vienna--History--19th century.
Women artists--Vienna--Vienna--History--20th century.
Women artists--Vienna--Vienna--History--19th century.
Decorative arts--Vienna--Vienna--History--20th century.
Decorative arts--Vienna--Vienna--History--19th century.
Art, Austrian--20th century.
Art, Austrian--19th century.
Art, Austrian.
Decorative arts.
Women artists.
Austria--Vienna.
1800-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a female Secession -- The art of unlearning at the Viennese Women's Academy, 1897-1908 -- Surface decoration and the female handicrafts in the Bo˜hm School -- Separate but equal? : academic accreditation and the question of a female aesthetic at the Viennese Women's Academy, 1908-28 -- Kinderkunst and Frauenkunst at the 1908 Kunstschau -- The birth of expressionist ceramics : "craft women" and the interway feminization of the applied arts -- Decorative trouble : collectivity, craft, and the decorative women of the Wiener Frauenkunst -- Conclusion : the collapse of the female Secession, 1928-38.

Summary:

"Examines the work of artists trained at the Viennese Women's Academy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Explores generational struggles and diverging artistic philosophies on art, craft, and design"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0271085045
9780271085043

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1121284517

LCCN:

2019058687

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)