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Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Elana Shapira
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Paperback. In the first book to investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein, the textile industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, the author Peter Altenberg, the tailor Leopold Goldman, and many others, Shapira reconsiders theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary creative stimulus Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
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. In this provocative reexamination of the roots of Viennese modernism, Elana Shapira analyzes the central role of Jewish businessmen, professionals, and writers in the evolution of the city’s architecture and design ... Read more
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. In this provocative reexamination of the roots of Viennese modernism, Elana Shapira analyzes the central role of Jewish businessmen, professionals, and writers in the evolution of the city’s architecture and design ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611689211
SKU
V9781611689211
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About Elana Shapira
"Elana Shapira lectures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria."
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