Main entry:

Shapira, Elana, author.

Title & Author:

Style & seduction : Jewish patrons, architecture, and design in Fin de Siècle Vienna / Elana Shapira.

Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2016]

Description:

xv, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Historicists, 1860S -- 70S -- Eduard von Todesco, Gustav von Epstein, and Their Neo-Renaissance Palaces on the Ringstrasse -- 2. Secessionists, 1897 -- 1902 -- Ludwig Hevesi, Karl Wittgenstein and the Secession House, and Friedrich Victor Spitzer's Music Salon -- 3. Modernists, 1902 -- 7 -- Isidor Singer and Heinrich Kanner and the Telegraph Office of Die Zeit, Fritz Waerndorfer's House for the Art Lover, the Wiener Werkstatte and the Cabaret Fledermaus, and the Richard Beer-Hofmann Villa -- 4. Avant-Gardists, 1908 -- 11 -- Peter Altenberg's Portrait in the American Bar and Leopold Goldman and the Goldman & Salatsch House.

Summary:

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 for the Jewish contribution to Viennese modernism. Instead, she argues that creative tensions between Jews and non-Jews--patrons and designers who cooperated and arranged well-choreographed social encounters with one another--offer more convincing explanations for the formation of a new semantics of modern Viennese architecture and design than do theories based on assimilation. --Publisher description.

ISBN:

9781611689204 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1611689201 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781611689211 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
161168921X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781611689693

Subject:

Wiener Secession.
Design 2016
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 et société Autriche Vienne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et société Autriche Vienne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectes et mécènes Autriche Vienne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architectes et mécènes Autriche Vienne Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Autriche Vienne Histoire 19e siècle.
Design Autriche Vienne Histoire 20e siècle.
Juifs Mécénat.
Architects and patrons.
Architecture and society.
Civilization.
Design.
Architektur
Bürgertum
Fin de siècle
Juden
Mäzenatentum
Produktgestaltung
Vienna (Austria) Civilization 19th century.
Vienna (Austria) Civilization 20th century.
Vienne (Autriche) Civilisation 19e siècle.
Vienne (Autriche) Civilisation 20e siècle.
Austria Vienna.
Wien
Vienne (Autriche)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

Style and seduction

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295426
Call No.: BIB 241647
Status: Available