A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims of cultural authority. In this provocative reexamination of the roots of Viennese modernism, Elana Shapira analyzes the central role of Jewish businessmen, professionals, and writers in the evolution...
A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in ...
Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture considers the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers, such as Edward Bernays, Eve Zeisel, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Victor Papanek and Otto and Marie Neurath, to 20th century American design and architecture.
Contributors to this important volume address the intellectual and artistic formation of emigre designers in their home countries, and examine how they drew on networks of emigre and exiled designers in the United States in order to develop a design culture in mid-century America that was humanist, progressive...
Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture considers the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers, such as Edward Bern...
