Free Download Megan Brandow-Faller, "The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women's Academy"
English | ISBN: 0271085045 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 47 MB
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
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