The Female Secession Carol J. Bruess Mental Illness examines the provision

Mental Illness examines the provision made for people with mental illness and their carers

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and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized

Jane Bernstein had everything she ever wanted: a healthy four-year-old daughter

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The Female Secession Carol J. Bruess Mental Illness examines the provisionDecorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar Vienna's female Secession created craft based artworks that may be understood as sites of feminist resistance. In this book, historian Megan Brandow Faller tells the story of how these artists disrupted long established boundaries by working to dislodge fixed oppositions between art and craft, decorative