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.