Objects in exile : modern art and design across borders : 1930-1960
In the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile infused their modernist ideas with new urgency and forced them to use certain materials in place of others, modify existing...
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| Médium: | Livre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
2024.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Objects in exile, modern art and design across borders, 1930-1960, [text by] Robin Schuldenfrei, 2024, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 volume (345 pages), 978-0-6912-3266-9 |
Obsah:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction. Dislocation, Modernism, and the Materiality of Exile
- Transposition
- Chapter 1. Architecture's Material Abstraction: László Moholy-Nagy and the Industrial City
- Chapter 2. Minimal Dwelling: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy at Isokon in England
- Contingent Conditions
- Chapter 3. Images in Exile: Lucia Moholy's Bauhaus Negatives and the Construction of a Modernist Legacy
- Chapter 4. Assimilating Unease: László Moholy-Nagy and the Wartime/Postwar Chicago Bauhaus
- Chapter 5. Domesticating the Grid: Ludwig Hilberseimer's Housing. Remediation
- Chapter 6. Exigencies of Materializing Vision: Josef Albers's Glass Paintings to Homage to the Square
- Chapter 7. Anni Albers's Design Theory and Its Objects: Typewriter Studies to Architecture's Pliable Plane
- Chapter 8. Herbert Bayer's Expanded Vision and the Instrumentalizing of Design
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Photo Credits