{"product_id":"the-female-secession-art-and-the-decorative-at-the-viennese-women-s-academy","title":"The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Megan Brandow-Faller\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Impeccably researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Female Secession\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable contribution to scholarship on early twentieth-century Austrian art and to feminist art history. Brandow-Faller persuasively argues that the self-consciously feminine art produced by Women’s Academy artists should be understood as part of a feminist lineage that leads through the artwork of 1970s feminist artists such as Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro and on to that of craftivists of the twenty-first century.”—Bibiana Obler, author of \u003cem\u003eIntimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“This beautifully illustrated study brings new attention to the overlooked achievements of women artists in Vienna in the early twentieth century. It is a much-needed contribution to design history that illuminates the role of gender in Central European art education and professional practice.”—Rebecca Houze, author of \u003cem\u003eTextiles, Fashion, and Design Reform in Austria-Hungary Before the First World War: Principles of Dress\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDecorative 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracing 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 \u003cem\u003eFrauenkunst\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEngagingly 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e304 pages | 27 color, 60 black-and-white illustrations \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePenn State University Press, 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 x 10 x 1 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9780271085043\u003cbr\u003eArt History, Women Studies, Vienna\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39608742609064,"sku":"9780271085043","price":106.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/The-Female-Secession-Art-and-the-Decorative-at-the-Viennese-Womens-Academy_Megan-Brandow-Faller.jpg?v=1617716016","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-female-secession-art-and-the-decorative-at-the-viennese-women-s-academy","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}