Ebook: Style & seduction : Jewish patrons, architecture, and design in fin de siècle Vienna
Author: Elana Shapira
- Tags: Architecture and society -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century, Architecture et société -- Autriche -- Vienne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Architecture and society -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century, Architecture et société -- Autriche -- Vienne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle, Architects and patrons -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century, Architectes et mécènes -- Autriche -- Vienne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle, Architects and patrons -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 2
- Series: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Brandeis University Press
- City: Austria--Vienna., Vienna (Austria), Vienne (Autriche)
- Language: English
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A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims of cultural authority. Read more...