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Megan Brandow-Falle

Megan Brandow-Falle

he Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Womens Academy

Join Millbrook-based art historian Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller this Women’s History Month for a talk on her recent book The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy (Penn State University Press, 2020) about women artists in the early 20th century defying the rigid strictures of the day to make innovative art.

When asked about her motivation for writing her book, Megan replied, "Just as the subjects in the book gave value to a maternal lineage of handcraft, the book is definitely autobiographical in that it relates to the strong women in my own life, especially the legacy of my grandmothers, both powerful women in their own right."

Megan Brandow-Faller is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, Kingsborough. Her research focuses on art and design in Secessionist and interwar Vienna, including children’s art and artistic toys of the Vienna Secession; expressionist ceramics of the Wiener Werkstätte; folk art and modernism; and women’s art education. She is the editor of Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-present (Bloomsbury 2018), the co-editor (with Laura Morowitz) of Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modern Art Architecture and Design (Routledge, Forthcoming) as well as various peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

www.meganbrandowfaller.com