Title & Author:

Frederick Kiesler : face to face with the avant-garde : essays on network and impact / edited by Peter Bogner, Gerd Zillner, Frederick Kiesler Foundation ; with contributions by Lucinda Barnes [and twenty three others].

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2019]
©2019

Description:

359 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Rashid, Hani -- Introduction / Bogner, Peter -- 1. Face to Face with the Avant-Garde / Zillner, Gerd -- 2. Kiesler's Berlin (1921-1926), Theater and the November Group / Welzbacher, Christian -- 3. Frederick Kiesler, Berthold Viertel and Karl Kraus Between Vienna, Berlin and New York / Prager, Katharina -- 4. The Kieslers and the Tietzes / Bogner, Dieter / Zillner, Gerd -- 5. Frederick Kiesler, the Bauhaus and the Bauhaus-Stage / Blume, Torsten -- 6. Frederick Kiesler and the Futurists / Bedarida, Raffaele -- 7. Parallel Avant-Gardes in Vienna / Galácz, Judit / Pál Szeredi, Merse -- 8. Frederick Kiesler and Theo van Doesburg / McGuire, Laura -- 9. Frederick Kiesler and Piet Mondrian / Grabach, Tilo -- 10. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Richter / Meißner-Wolfbeisser, Jill -- 11. George Antheil, Kiesler's first American Friend / Piccinini, Mauro -- 12. Frederick Kiesler and the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen / Friedman, Marilyn F. -- 13. The Friendship Between Hans Arp and Frederick Kiesler / Buhmann, Stephanie -- 14. Frederick Kiesler and Sigfried Giedion / Grunewald, Almut -- 15. Frederick Kiesler and Marcel Duchamp / Kauffman, Alexander -- 16. Arshile Gorky and Frederick Kiesler / Taylor, Michael -- 17. Frederick Kiesler and Sidney Janis / Janis, Carroll -- 18. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Hofmann / Barnes, Lucinda -- 19. A Personal Memory / Wines, James -- 20. Frederick Kiesler and Piero Dorazio / Sonzogni, Valentina -- 21. Kiesler facing Jerusalem / Shapira, Elana -- Index -- Authors' Biographies

Summary:

Frederick Kiesler was a networker and communicated regularly with the who's who of the avant-garde. He was an intermediary between the ideas of the European Moderne movement and the New York art scene. About 20 contributions portray his life and his oeuvre in various contexts and place Kiesler in a dialog with the artists and architects of his time. The publication on the occasion of the 20 year anniversary of the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation deals with his relationship with the Bauhaus, surrealism, and the New York School, as well as with personalities such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Hans Arp, Sigfried Giedion, and others.

ISBN:

9783035615500 (hardbound)
3035615500 (hardbound)

Subject:

Kiesler, Frederick.
Kiesler, Frederick Criticism and interpretation.
Kiesler, Frederick Influence.
Kiesler, Frederick Friends and associates.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts 20e siècle.
Friendship
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Arts, Modern
Architecture, Modern
Art, Modern

Form/genre:

History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Kiesler, Frederick. Works. Selections.
Bogner, Peter, editor.
Zillner, Gerd, editor.
Barnes, Lucinda, contributor.
Bogner, Peter editor.
Zillner, Gerd editor.
Barnes, Lucinda. contributor.
Frederick Kiesler Foundation, editor.
Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung editor.

Face to face with the avant-garde : essays on network and impact

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306296
Call No.: BIB 251912
Status: Available