Émigré cultures in design and architecture / edited by Alison J. Clarke and Elana Shapira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Alison J., editor.

Shapira, Elana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Design.

Architecture and society--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture and society.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Central Europeans--United States.

Central Europeans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction - Elana Shapira and Alison J. Clarke

I. Social Transformation and Mass Consumption : 1. Isotype and Architectural Knowledge - Eve Blau ; 2. (Mis)Understanding Consumption. Expertise and Consumer Policies in Vienna, 1918-1938 - Oliver Kühschelm ; 3. Shaping the Mass Mind: Frederick Kiesler and the Psychology of Selling - Barnaby Haran

II. Assimilation, Emancipation and modern Pluralism : 4. Becoming American: Paul T. Frankl's Passage to a New Design Aesthetic - Christopher Long ; 5. Paul László and the Atomic Future - Monica Penick ; 6. Eva Zeisel: Gender, Design, Modernism - Pat Kirkham

III. "Outsiders" Perspectives and Cultural Critique : 7. Real and Imagined Networks of an Émigré Biography: Victor J. Papanek Social Designer - Alison J. Clarke ; 8. Kiesler, Rudofsky, and Papanek: the Question of Gender - Elana Shapira ; 9. Felix Augenfeld: Modern Architecture, Psychoanalysis and Antifascism - Ruth Hanisch

IV. Emigration and Education - Bauhaus in the USA : 10. György Kepes's "Universities of Vision: From Education in Design to Design as Education of the Mind - Anna Vallye ; 11. The Architectonics of Perception: Xanti Schawinsky at Black Mountain College - Eva Díaz

V. Envisioning a Global Home : 12. Between Culture and Biology: Schindler and Neutra at the Limits of Architecture - Todd Cronan ; 13. Bernard Rudofsky: Not at Home - Felicity D. Scott

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4742-7563-X

1-4742-7561-3

OCLC:

1201426769