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Zusatztext É migré Cultures in Design and Architecture provides much-needed analysis about how European émigré designers and architects engaged with America during the twentieth-century, an episode previously alluded to mostly in passing. These new essays advance our understanding of the complexity of these encounters, explaining what was gained, what was lost, and what is still be learned from them. Informationen zum Autor Alison J. Clarke is Professor of Design History and Theory and founding Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Elana Shapira is a design and cultural historian and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Klappentext 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 their later adoption or rejection by American culture. They argue that émigrés and refugees from fascist Europe such as György Kepes, Paul László, Victor Papanek, Bernard Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular experiences of their home countries, and networks of émigré and exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist, progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues to influence design practice today. Vorwort This innovative volume addresses the contribution made to 20th century American design and architecture by émigrés fleeing fascism in Europe. Zusammenfassung 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 prefiguredtheir later adoption or rejection by American culture. They argue that émigrés and refugees from fascist Europe such as György Kepes, Paul László, Victor Papanek, Bernard Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular experiences of their home countries, and networks of émigré and exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist, progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues to influence design practice today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Elana Shapira and Alison J. Clarke I. Social Transformation and Mass Consumption 1. Isotype and Architectural Knowledge - Eve Blau2. (Mis)Understanding Consumption. Expertise and Consumer Policies in Vienna, 1918-1938 - Oliver Kühschelm3. Shaping the Mass Mind: Frederick Kiesler and the Psychology of Selling - Barnaby Haran II. Assimilation, Emancipation and modern Pluralism 4. Becoming American: Paul T. Frankl’s Passage to a New Design Aesthetic - Christopher Long5. Paul László and the Atomic Future - Monica Penick6. Eva Zeisel: Gender, Design, Modernism - Pat Kirkham III. “Outsiders” Perspectives and Cultural Critique 7. Real and Imagined Networks of an Émigré Biography: Victor J. Papanek Social Designer - Alison J. Clarke8. Kiesler, Rudofsky, and Papanek: the Question of Gender - Elana Shapira9. Felix Augenfeld: Modern Architecture, Psychoanalysis and Antifascism - Ruth Hanisch IV. Emigration and Education - Bauhaus in the USA 10. György Kepes’s “Universities of Vision: From Education in Design to Design as Education of the Mind - Anna Vallye11. The Architectonics of Perception: Xanti Schawinsky at Black Mounta...
