The female secession: art and the decorative at the Viennese Women's Academy

Uittreksel

"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."

Inhoud

Introduction : a female Secession -- The art of unlearning at the Viennese Women's Academy, 1897-1908 -- Surface decoration and the female handicrafts in the Böhm 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.