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The Female Secession
2020
Overview
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-Faller tells the
story of how these artists disrupted long-established boundaries by
working to dislodge fixed oppositions between \"art\" and \"craft,\"
\"decorative\" and \"profound,\" and \"masculine\" and \"feminine\" in
art.
Tracing the history of the women's art movement in Secessionist
Vienna-from its origins in 1897, at the Women's Academy, to the
Association of Austrian Women Artists and its radical offshoot, the
Wiener Frauenkunst-Brandow-Faller tells the compelling story of a
movement that reclaimed the stereotypes attached to the idea of
Frauenkunst , or women's art. She shows how generational
struggles and diverging artistic philosophies of art, craft, and
design drove the conservative and radical wings of Austria's
women's art movement apart and explores the ways female artists and
craftswomen reinterpreted and extended the Klimt Group's ideas in
the interwar years. Brandow-Faller draws a direct connection to the
themes that impelled the better-known explosion of feminist art in
1970s America. In this provocative story of a Viennese modernism
that never disavowed its ornamental, decorative roots, she gives
careful attention to key primary sources, including photographs and
reviews of early twentieth-century exhibitions and archival records
of school curricula and personnel.
Engagingly written and featuring more than eighty representative
illustrations, The Female Secession recaptures the radical
potential of what Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka referred to as \"works
from women's hands.\" It will appeal to art historians working in
the decorative arts and modernism as well as historians of
Secession-era Vienna and gender history.
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271085043, 0271085045
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