Cover; Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Historicists, 1860s -- 70s; The Secessionists, 1897-1902; The Modernists, 1902 -- 7; The Avant-Gardists, 1980 -- 11; Conclusion; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index; Color Plates
Summary
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 from the 1860s to the 1910s
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 16, 2016)