Main entry:

Schuldenfrei, Robin, author.

Title & Author:

Objects in exile : modern art and design across borders, 1930-1960 / Robin Schuldenfrei.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Description:

345 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Dislocation, Modernism, and the Materiality of Exile -- Transposition. Architecture's Material Abstraction: László Moholy-Nagy and the Industrial City -- Minimal Dwelling: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy at Isokon in England -- Contingent Conditions. Images in Exile: Lucia Moholy's Bauhaus Negatives and the Construction of a Modernist Legacy -- Assimilating Unease: László Moholy-Nagy and the Wartime/Postwar Chicago Bauhaus -- Domesticating the Grid: Ludwig Hilberseimer's Housing -- Remediation. Exigencies of Materializing Vision: Josef Albers's Glass Paintings to Homage to the Square -- Anni Albers's Design Theory and Its Objects: Typewriter Studies to Architecture's Pliable Plane -- Herbert Bayer's Expanded Vision and the Instrumentalizing of Design.

Summary:

"An innovative new history of how the migration of designers in the 20th century shaped modernist art and architecture"-- Provided by publisher.
"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 works, and reconsider their approach to design itself. In Objects in Exile, Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the process of migration was crucial to the development of modernism, charting how modern art and architecture was shaped by the need to constantly face—and transcend—the materiality of things. Examining works by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Herbert Bayer, Anni and Josef Albers, and others, Schuldenfrei demonstrates the social impact of art objects produced in exile. Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, Objects in Exile shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world"-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780691232669 hardcover
0691232660 hardcover
electronic book
9780691254951

Subject:

Modernism (Aesthetics) History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Expatriate architects.
Expatriate artists.
Modernisme (Esthétique) Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Art 20e siècle.
Architectes expatriés.
Artistes expatriés.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
DESIGN / Reference.
Architecture, Modern
Art, Modern
Modernism (Aesthetics)

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

modern art and design across borders, 1930-1960

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319225
Call No.: 319225
Copy: 1
Status: Available