Sabine Wieber

Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jugendstil, that is Germany's distinct engagement with the international Art Nouveau movement, is now firmly engrained in histories of modern art, architecture and design. Recent exhibitions and publications across the world explored Jugendstil's key protagonists and artistic centres to firmly anchor their activities within the trajectories of German modernism. Women, however, continue to be largely absent from these revisionist accounts.

Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design argues that women in fact actively participated in the cultural and socio-economic exchanges that generated German design responses to European modernity. By drawing on previously unpublished archival material and a series of original case studies including Elsa Bruckmann's Munich salon, the Photo Studio Elvira and the Debschitz School, the book explores women's important contributions to modern German culture as collectors, consumers, critics, designers, educators, and patrons.

This book offers a new interpretation of this vibrant period by considering diverse manifestations of historical female agency that pushed against historically entrenched conventions and gender roles. The book's rigorous approach reshapes Jugendstil historiography by positing women's lived experiences against dominant ideologies that emerged at this precise moment. In short, the book advocates women as an integral part of the emergence, dissemination and reception of Jugendstil and questions the deeply gendered histories of this key period in modern art, architecture and design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350088535
• Artikelnr.: 62745153

Autorenporträt

Sabine Wieber is Lecturer in History of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has contributed writing to various publications including Stitching the Self (Bloomsbury, 2020), Design and Agency (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Designing the Modern Interior (Berg, 2009), and has written for several journals including Journal of Design History and Rethinking History.