Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design (Routledge Research in Art History)

__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 missing elements to the story of the visual arts in early twentieth-century Vienna, authors investigate issues of gender, race, ethnic and sexual identity, and political affiliation. Both well-studied artists and organizations—such as the Secession and the Austrian Werkbund, and iconic figures such as Klimt and Hoffmann—are explored, as are lesser known figures and movements. The book’s thought-provoking chapters expand the chronological contours and canon of artists surrounding Viennese Modernism to offer original, nuanced, and rich readings of individual works, while offering a more diverse portrait of the period from 1890, through World War II and into the present. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history, design history, architectural history, and European studies. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Table of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 Beyond Amnesia: Jewish Artists, Patrons and Critics 1 Art in Vienna 1900, or the Return of the Repressed 2 Erasing “Jewish Traces”: Max Oppenheimer and the Crux of Art Historiography 3 “Our Great Josef Hoffmann”: Undoing the Austrian Profile of a Celebrated Architect 4 The Emigration of Egon Schiele: Jewish Refugees and Austrian Modernism in New York 5 As if They Were Never There: Vienna’s Cityscape and the Ethnic Cleansing of Memory PART 2 Beyond the “Superstars”: Gendered Erasures 6 Guests or Members? Women Artists in the Circle of Egon Schiele 7 Across Stage, Page and Dance Floor: Asserting the Dynamic Female Body in Klien’s Kineticism 8 The Birth of Painting from the Spirit of the Gingerbread: Anna Lesznai’s Hungarian Exotic in 1920s Vienna 9 Who Knows BEST? Gendered Views of Interwar Design Reform and Wiener Wohnkultur 10 From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America: Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska and the Cult of Creativity 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 12 Good Art, Bad Art: The Culture Wars of Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Their Legacy 13 Robert Örley and the Other Wiener Moderne 14 Josephine Baker in 1920s Vienna: Modernism, Blackness and Popular Culture 15 On Erasures in Modern Architecture: Catholic “Modernism” and the Historiography of Church Building Between the Wars PART 4 Epilogue: Past Erasures, Present Aims: The VBKÖ in 2022 16 Speaking with Gaps and Silences in the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen* Österreichs (Association of Austrian Wom*n Artists): Introduction and Interview Index Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modern 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 missing elements to the story of the visual arts in early twentieth-century Vienna, authors investigate issues of gender, race, ethnic and sexual identity, and political affiliation. Both well-studied artists and organizations--such as the Secession and the Austrian Werkbund, and iconic figures such as Klimt and Hoffmann--are explored, as are lesser known figures and movements. The book's thought-provoking chapters expand the chronological contours and canon of artists surrounding Viennese Modernism to offer original, nuanced, and rich readings of individual works, while offering a more diverse portrait of the period from 1890, through World War II and into the present. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history, design history, architectural history, and European studies.-- Provided by publisher