Tag Gronberg Explained

Theresa Ann "Tag" Gronberg is an art historian with Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in the art of the Vienna Secession and Viennese coffeehouse culture.^[1] Her research interests also include gender and visual culture in 1920s France.^[2]

Her first sole-authored book was Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris which was published by Manchester University Press in 1998.^{[3] [4]} Her second book was Vienna - City of Modernity, 1890-1914, published by Peter Lang in 2007.^{[5] [6]}

She was married to the art historian and critic Paul Overy who died in 2008.^[7]

Selected publications

Articles and chapters

• "The Inner Man: Interiors and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna", The Oxford Art Journal, 24, No. 1 (2001), 67–88.
• "Coffeehouse Encounters: Adolf Loos's Café Museum", FrauenKunstWissenschaft, No. 32 (December 2001), 22–33.
• "The Viennese coffeehouse: a legend in performance" in Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior from the Victorians to Today, eds. Fiona Fisher et al. (Berg, 2011)
• "Myths of the Viennese Cafe: Ephemerality, Performativity and Loss" in Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism, edited by Elana Shapira. (Bohlau Verlag, 2018)

Books

• Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris. Manchester University Press, 1998. (paperback 2003).
• Vienna - City of Modernity, 1890-1914. Peter Lang, 2007.
• "Coffeehouse Orientalism" in The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Berghahn, 2013).
• The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture. Berghahn Books, 2013. (co-editor with Charlotte Ashby and Simon Shaw-Miller)^[8]

Notes and References

1. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history/staff/teaching-staff/gronberg Dr Tag Gronberg.
2. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history/staff/teaching-staff/gronberg/current-research-interests Current research interests.
3. 10.2752/136270402790577587. Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris by Tag Gronberg. Fashion Theory. 6. 3. 347–355. 2015. Tolini. Michelle. 194151040 .
4. 40662770. Lichtman. Sarah. Reviewed work: As Long as It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, Penny Sparke; Designs on Modernity: Exhibiting the City in 1920s Paris, Tag Gronberg. Studies in the Decorative Arts. 8. 1. 176–178. 2000. 10.1086/studdecoarts.8.1.40662770 .
5. Cordileone. Diana Reynolds. April 2009. Tag Gronberg. Vienna: City of Modernity, 1890–1914. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. 226, illus.. Austrian History Yearbook. en. 40. 342–343. 10.1017/S0067237809001271. 1558-5255.
6. 40301437. Wieber. Sabine. Reviewed work: Vienna: City of Modernity, 1890-1914, Tag Gronberg, Peter Lang. Journal of Design History. 22. 2. 183–185. 2009. 10.1093/jdh/epp008.
7. News: Paul Overy: Writer on art and architecture. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-overy-writer-on-art-and-architecture-927050.html . 26 May 2022 . subscription . live. 12 September 2008. The Independent. 2018-09-27. en-GB.
8. 43280422. Shedel. James. Reviewed work: The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg, Simon Shaw-Miller. Central European History. 47. 1. 194–196. 2014. 10.1017/s0008938914000764. 145266270 .