London Exile : Metropolis, Modernity, and Artistic Migration / Burcu Dogramaci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dogramaci, Burcu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2025.

Summary:

<strong>A new approach to modern art shaped by exile and migration.</strong>In the 1930s and 1940s, London was a metropolis of artistic exile and a place of refuge from Nazi persecution. <em>London Exile</em> is the first book to look at the British capital as a sanctuary for modern artists. The city presented its new arrivals with opportunities and challenges: exiles established galleries, founded publishing houses and magazines, collaborated with local artists, organised exhibitions, published their work, and built networks. Artistic and theoretical production flourished in close dialogue with urban space.This volume sheds light on how the arrival of exiles transformed London's art scene and, conversely, how the experience of displacement and the city shaped the work of émigrés in fields such as art, architecture, and photography. <em>London Exile</em> brings art history, urban studies, and exile studies into a vibrant dialogue and contributes to a new understanding of the history of modern art.

Contents:

Prologue: London, Metropolis of Artistic Exile 9Arrival and Orientation: Address Books, Street Maps, and Undergrounds 23Neighbourhoods, Streets, and Houses: Exile History as Urban History 41Gendered London: Gender, Sexuality, and Exile 65Émigrés Build for Émigrés 83Transplanted Objects: Sigmund Freud's Collection and Chair 103Sculpture, Modernity, and Exile: Jussuf Abbo in London 121From Bauhaus to the Thames: Textile Designs by Margaret Leischner 143In the Blitz: Helmut Gernheim's Photographs of National Monuments 161Portrait of a City: Streets and Faces of Exile 179London Zoo: Animal, City, and Exile 203Storytelling in Pictures: Stefan Lorant and the Picture Post Photographers 249Reading Exile: Publishers and Books as Multipliers 281Immortal Portraits: Exile, London, and the Historiography of Early Photography 305Back to History: Ludwig Meidner and the British Caricature 325Pencil as Weapon: Richard Ziegler, Walter Trier, and Die Zeitung 337Exhibited Exile: Exhibitions by and with Émigrés 361Show It: Galleries as Places of Distribution of Modernity in Exile 381Allies inside Germany and English Art and the Mediterranean: Exhibitions in and outside London 413Beyond London: Rosa Schapire, Expressionism, and/in Leicester 441Epilogue: Self-descriptions of Exile - A Look Back 463Afterword and Acknowledgements 475Notes 479Bibliography 537Index of Persons, Institutions, and Periodicals.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

94-6166-657-8

94-6166-656-X

OCLC:

1535170737

Publisher Number:

10.11116/9789461666567

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access