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Author Shapira, Elana, author.

Title Style & seduction : Jewish patrons, architecture, and design in fin de siècle Vienna / Elana Shapira
Published Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations
Series The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Contents 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)
Subject Architecture and society -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century
Architecture and society -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century
Architects and patrons -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century
Architects and patrons -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century
Design -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 19th century
Design -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Art patronage.
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
ARCHITECTURE / General
Architects and patrons
Architecture and society
Civilization
Design
Jews -- Art patronage
SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) -- Civilization -- 19th century
Vienna (Austria) -- Civilization -- 20th century
Subject Austria -- Vienna
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015047436
ISBN 9781611689693
1611689694
Other Titles Style and seduction
Jewish patrons, architecture, and design in fin de siècle Vienna