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modern art and design across borders, 1930-1960
345 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
An innovative new history of how the migration of designers in the 20th century shaped modernist art and architecture.
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Dislocation, Modernism, and the Materiality of Exile -- Transposition -- Chapter 1. Architecture's Material Abstraction: László Moholy-Nagy and the Industrial City -- Chapter 2. Minimal Dwelling: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy at Isokon in England -- Contingent Conditions -- Chapter 3. Images in Exile: Lucia Moholy's Bauhaus Negatives and the Construction of a Modernist Legacy -- Chapter 4. Assimilating Unease: László Moholy-Nagy and the Wartime/Postwar Chicago Bauhaus -- Chapter 5. Domesticating the Grid: Ludwig Hilberseimer's Housing. Remediation -- Chapter 6. Exigencies of Materializing Vision: Josef Albers's Glass Paintings to Homage to the Square -- Chapter 7. Anni Albers's Design Theory and Its Objects: Typewriter Studies to Architecture's Pliable Plane -- Chapter 8. Herbert Bayer's Expanded Vision and the Instrumentalizing of Design -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Photo Credits
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)