Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture

by Clarke, Alison J.; Shapira, Elana

• ISBN13: 9781474275606
• ISBN10: 1474275605
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-07-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Author Biography

Alison J. Clarke is professor of design history and director of the Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. She is the editor of Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century (2010) and the author of Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (2014), and of the forthcoming Designer for the Real World: Victor Papanek and 1970s Design Activism.

Elana Shapira is a lecturer of design history and theory, and a senior researcher in the Émigré
Cultural Networks project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. She is the author of the forthcoming title Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons and Modern Architecture and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Alison Clarke & Elana Shapira, both University of Applied Arts Vienna, AUT
1. Isotype and Architecture in Red Vienna and Beyond, Eve Blau, Harvard University, USA
2. (Mis)understanding Consumption. Consumer Experts and the Austro-Fascist Regime, Oliver Kuehschelm, University of Vienna, Austria
3. Shaping the Mass Mind: Frederick Kiesler and Edward Bernays in NY in the 1920s, Barnaby Haran, University of Hull, UK
4. Josef Frank and Paul T. Frankl: Two Tales of the Winter Moderne Abroad, Christopher Long, Texas University at Austin, USA
5. Freud's Armchair, Felix Augenfeld and the Psychoanalysis Movement in Vienna and New York, Ruth Hanisch, Independent Scholar, Austria
6. Eve Zeisel's Vienna, Budapest, New York: Wanderlust, Imprisonment, Exile and
Emigration Pat Kirkham, Bard Graduate Center, NYC, USA
7. Schindler vs Neutra or Architectyre at the End of History, Todd Cronan, Emory University, USA
8. László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer and the Social Usefulness of Art, Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
9. Educating the Citizen's Mind: Gyorgy Kepes at MIT, Anna Vallye, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
10. The Question of Gender: Kiesler, Rudofsky, Papanek and Surrealism, Elana Shapira – University Applied Arts Vienna
11. Paul Laszlo and the Atomic Future, Monica Penick, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
12.Design Revolution: The Émigré Gaze and the New Ethnography, Alison Clarke, University Applied Arts Vienna
13. Bernhard Rudofsky and Architecture without Architects, Felicity D. Scott, Columbia University, USA
14. Otto and Marie Neurath: the 'Vienna Method' in Exile, Christopher Burke, University of Reading, UK