Vienna and the new Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 / Michelle Jackson-Beckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson-Beckett, Michelle, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior architecture--Austria--History--20th century.

Interior architecture.

Interior decoration--Austria--History--20th century.

Interior decoration.

Modern movement (Architecture)--Austria--Vienna.

Modern movement (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, and arts. This book explores why and how the Viennese design landscape was set apart - aesthetically and theoretically - from other European explorations of modern design. Jackson-Beckett examines interior design exhibitions, press, and debates about modern living in interwar Vienna, an overlooked area of modern European architecture and design history, arguing for a reconsideration of the contours of European modernism. The text analyses varied interpretations of modern domestic culture (Wohnkultur) in Vienna, and explores why these interpretations were distinct from other strands of European modernism.

Contents:

Cover

Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Chronology of Exhibitions

A Note on Currency

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Vienna's Interwar Wohnkultur

1: Einfacher Hausrat: Designs for Simple Dwelling in Postwar Vienna

The Ruptures of 1918

Red Vienna and the New Wohnkultur

The Role of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry

Simple Household Goods

2: Die neuzeitliche Wohnung: The Modern Dwelling in 1920s Vienna

A New Way Forward?

How Should I Furnish My Apartment?

Ernst Lichtblau's Contemporary Apartment in Wien und die Wiener (1927)

Die neuzeitliche Wohnung: Spatial Art and the Apartment, 1928-1931

The Modern Rental Apartment, 1930-1931

The Rental Apartment: A Cultural Question

3: Wiener Raumkünstler: Spatial Art and Spatial Science

Wiener Raumkünstler (1929-1930): New Viennese Living

Viennese Spatial Art

Talmi-Wohnlichkeit: Imagining the Modern Dwelling

User Experience: The Modern Home Is Not a Work of Art

Franz Löwitsch and Scientific Approaches to User Experience

Raumkunst for the People

Wiener Werkbundsiedlung

4: Der gute, billige Gegenstand: Objects of "Good Design" in Interwar Vienna

BEST and the Austrian Association for Housing Reform, 1929-1931

Paradigm Shift over Product Placement

BEST's Educational Program for Manufacturers

"The Good, Inexpensive Object": The Question of Good Design

Good Design at What Cost?

Responses to the Exhibition

Comparisons with Germany: Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich

Class and Domestic Culture

Eugenics and Modern Dwelling

Dämonie der Dinge: What Is "Bad Design"?

Conclusions

5: Das befreite Handwerk: Vienna's New Wohnkultur under Austrofascism

The Liberated Handcraft

"Steel has never replaced wood here": The 1936 Hagenbund Exhibition

Neues Leben: Modern Wohnkultur under Austrofascism

Epilogue: Reformations of Viennese Wohnkultur and the Mid-Century Modern Home

"Simple" Living as Commodity

Kunstpolitik for a New Austria, or "Gemütlichkeit in Turmoil"?

Interwar Origins of "Good Design"

Relevance Today: User Experience Before UX

The Roots of Eclectic Living

Wohnen morgen/Dwelling Tomorrow

APPENDIX: Key Individuals and Firms

Cultural Critics, Art Historians, Publishers

Architects and Designers

Firms (Years Active)

Institutions and Organizations

Royal Imperial Austrian Museum of Art and Industry/Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Directors of Interest (Years Active as Museum Leadership)

Archives and Collections

Notes

Notes to Introduction

Notes to Chapter 1

Notes to Chapter 2

Notes to Chapter 3

Notes to Chapter 4

Notes to Chapter 5

Notes to Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-887951-2

0-19-887950-4

0-19-198935-5

OCLC:

1416891784