Objects in Exile (eBook)

Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960

Robin Schuldenfrei (Autor)

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2024
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25495-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn 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 faceand transcendthe materiality of things.Taking readers from the prewar era to the 1960s, Schuldenfrei explores the objects these emigres brought with them, what they left behind, and the new works they completed in exile. She argues that modernism could only coalesce with the abandonment of national borders in a process of emigration and resettlement, and brings to life the vibrant postwar period when avant-garde ideas came together and emerged as mainstream modernism. Examining works by Walter Gropius, Laszlo 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 76 color + 82 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 20th Century Art • Anni Albers • design history • Displacement • display history • exile • Graphic Design • Herbert Bayer • Josef Albers • László Moholy-Nagy • Lucia Moholy • Ludwig Hilberseimer • Marcel Breuer • Mies van der Rohe • Modern Architecture • modern art • modernism • Objects in Exile: Materiality between Europe and America, 1930–1960 • Pedagogy • photography • Princeton University Press • Robin Schuldenfrei • Walter Gropius
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25495-8 / 0691254958
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25495-1 / 9780691254951