Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture Contributor(s): Clarke, Alison J. (Editor), Shapira, Elana (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474275605 ISBN-13: 9781474275606 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Design | History & Criticism - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - History | Europe - General |
Dewey: 720.103 |
LCCN: 2017043793 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.41 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Clarke, Alison: - Alison Clarke is at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. |