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Objects in Exile - Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960
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Objects in Exile - Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960
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An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined
modernism In 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 face—and
transcend—the materiality of things. Taking readers from the
prewar era to the 1960s, Schuldenfrei explores the objects these
émigrés 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, László
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.
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Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2024 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Robin Schuldenfrei
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Dimensions: |
267 x 191mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-23266-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-691-23266-0 |
Barcode: |
9780691232669 |
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