The Female Secession

Is it great or is it a bit sad that so many interesting books are coming out during the pandemic? I really don't know--on the one hand there is plenty to read (for anyone who has time, which many of us don't really just now), and on the other hand it's harder to promote books when we can't meet in person and often we just feel that the last thing we want to see is another Zoom-type event.

Nonetheless, here's another want-to-have title for those of us who study art/design history, Central Europe, and/or women's/gender history! Megan Brandow-Faller's The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy traces 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 and "draws a direct connection to the themes that impelled the better-known explosion of feminist art in 1970s America." I know I want to learn more!

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