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Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design

278 Pages 10 Color & 38 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

278 Pages 10 Color & 38 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

278 Pages 10 Color & 38 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interpretations of Viennese Modernism. The book centers on three main erasures—the erasure of Jewish artists and critics; erasures relating to gender and sexual identification; and erasures of other marginalized figures and movements. Restoring... Read more

Introduction

PART 1: Beyond Amnesia: Jewish Artists, Patrons and Critics

1. Art in Vienna 1900, or the Return of the Repressed

Laura Morowitz

2. Erasing "Jewish Traces": Max Oppenheimer and the Crux of Art Historiography

Nathan J. Timpano

3. "Our Great Josef Hoffmann": Undoing the Austrian Profile of a Celebrated Architect

Elana Shapira

4. The Emigration of Egon Schiele: Jewish Refugees and Austrian Modernism in New York

Frances Tanzer

5. As if They Were Never There: Vienna’s Cityscape and the Ethnic Cleansing of Memory

Steven Beller

PART 2: Beyond the "Superstars": Gendered Erasures

6. Guests or Members? Women Artists in the Circle of Egon Schiele

Andrea Winklbauer

7. Across Stage, Page and Dance Floor: Asserting the Dynamic Female Body in Klien’s Kineticism

Rae di Cicco

8. The Birth of Painting from the Spirit of the Gingerbread: Anna Lesznai’s Hungarian Exotic in 1920s Vienna

Julia Secklehner

9. Who Knows BEST? Gendered Views of Interwar Design Reform and Wiener Wohnkultur

Michelle Jackson-Beckett

10. From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America: Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska and the Cult of Creativity

Megan Brandow-Faller

PART 3: Beyond Klimt: Erasures of Understudied Movements/Artists/Connections

11.Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s "Expectation and Fulfillment" in the Palais Stoclet

Debora Silverman

12. Good Art, Bad Art: The Culture Wars of Fin de Siécle Austria and Their Legacy

James Shedel

13. Robert Örley and the Other Wiener Moderne

Christopher Long

14. Josephine Baker in 1920s Vienna: Modernism, Blackness and Popular Culture

Roman Horak

15. On Erasures in Modern Architecture: Catholic “Modernism” and the Historiography of Church Building Between the Wars

Matthew Rampley

PART 4: Epilogue: Past Erasures, Present Aims: The VBKÖ in 2022

16. Speaking with Gaps and Silences in the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreichs (Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists): Introduction and Interview

Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreichs (Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists)