The Female Secession : : Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy /

The Female Secession : : Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy / / Megan Brandow-Faller.

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Decorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar Vienna’s “female Secession” created craft-based artworks that may be understood as sites of feminist resistance. In this book, historian Megan Brandow-Fa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Brandow-Faller, Megan,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 27 color/60 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: A Female Secession
  • Part I Women’s Art Education
  • 1. The Art of Unlearning at the Viennese Women’s Academy, 1897–1908
  • 2. Surface Decoration and the Female Handcrafts in the Böhm School
  • 3. Separate but Equal? Academic Accreditation and the Question of a Female Aesthetic at the Viennese Women’s Academy, 1908–28
  • Part II The Female Secession
  • 4. Kinderkunst and Frauenkunst at the 1908 Kunstschau
  • 5. The Birth of Expressionist Ceramics: “Crafty Women” and the Interwar Feminization of the Applied Arts
  • 6. Decorative Trouble: Collectivity, Craft, and the Decorative Women of the Wiener Frauenkunst
  • Conclusion: The Collapse of the Female Secession, 1928–38
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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