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Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture, Paperback / softback Book

Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture Paperback / softback

Edited by Alison J. (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria) Clarke, Elana (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria) Shapira

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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.

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