PERCEPTIONS OF JEWISH FEMALE BODIES THROUGH GUSTAV KLIMT AND PETER ALTENBERG

Authors

  • Susanne Kelley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.stealimage.3-1.10

Abstract

Gustav Klimt and Peter Altenberg are two figures within Viennese fin-de-siècle cultural production whose art may reveal a perception of local Jewish culture through their different foci on the non-European female body image. Both men have moments in their career, when their attention turns to non-European cultures, through which they inadvertently represent and interpret their own. A selection of these two artists’ most well-known works demonstrate two frameworks in which Viennese Jewishness can be read through an alignment of the female body with Asian and African cultures.

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Published

2012-05-21

How to Cite

Kelley, S. (2012). PERCEPTIONS OF JEWISH FEMALE BODIES THROUGH GUSTAV KLIMT AND PETER ALTENBERG. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 3(1), 109–122. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.stealimage.3-1.10