Publication

2017-11-02 - Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017043793
  • Amazon1474275605

Classifications

  • LCCNA2543.S6
  • LCCNK1510 .E45 2017

Description

This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R.M. Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by American culture. They argue that émigrés and refugees from fascist Europe such as György Kepes, Paul László, Victor Papanek, Bernard Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular experiences of their home countries, and networks of émigré and exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist, progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues to influence design practice today.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Émigré Cultures in Design and ArchitectureHardcoverBloomsbury Academic2017-11-02

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