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Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna

Author : Caroline Wohlgemuth
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035624208
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna written by Caroline Wohlgemuth and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day – not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics of twentieth-century furniture design, the epitome of mid-century modern style. This book honors the memory of the exiled designers with a thorough overview of their work. It details their life stories and their visionary designs, which remain as relevant and contemporary as ever, and brings to light new aspects of the history of Viennese furniture design.

Mid-Century Modern - Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna

Author : Caroline Wohlgemuth
Publisher : Birkhaüser
ISBN 13 : 9783035624090
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Mid-Century Modern - Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna by : Caroline Wohlgemuth

Download or read book Mid-Century Modern - Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna written by Caroline Wohlgemuth and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day - not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics of twentieth-century furniture design, the epitome of mid-century modern style. This book honors the memory of the exiled designers with a thorough overview of their work. It details their life stories and their visionary designs, which remain as relevant and contemporary as ever, and brings to light new aspects of the history of Viennese furniture design.

Constructing the Viennese Modern Body

Author : Nathan J. Timpano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315413671
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing the Viennese Modern Body by : Nathan J. Timpano

Download or read book Constructing the Viennese Modern Body written by Nathan J. Timpano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically “hysterical” performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan J. Timpano discusses how Viennese artists favored the pathological or puppet-like body as their contribution to European modernism.

Mid-Century Vienna

Author : Tom Koch
Publisher : Falter Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3854397011
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Mid-Century Vienna written by Tom Koch and published by Falter Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weit entfernt von Barock und Jugendstil wird eine für das Wiener Stadtbild prägende Zeitepoche bislang wenig beachtet: Die 1950er und 1960er Jahre. Dabei haben die optimistischen Jahre des Wirtschaftswunders weitreichende Spuren in der Architektur, im Des

Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism

Author : Miles David Samson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317119320
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism by : Miles David Samson

Download or read book Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism written by Miles David Samson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States, it also includes the work of British, European Team X, and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis, historical context, and theory, the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation, and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernism’s 'forbidden' elements of the honorific and the visually pleasurable. It highlights the significance of 'pavilionizing' mid-century designers such as Victor Lundy, John Johansen, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone, and shows how frequently essentialist and traditionalist types appeared in the roadside vernacular of drive-in restaurants, gas stations, furniture and car showrooms, branch banks, and motels. The book ties together the threads in mid-century architectural theory that addressed aspects of type, 'essential' structure, and primal 'humanistic' aspects of environment-making and discusses how these concerns outlived the mid-century moment, and in the designs and writings of Aldo Rossi and others they paved the way for Post-Modernism.

Thunder at Twilight

Author : Frederic Morton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823276
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Thunder at Twilight written by Frederic Morton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.

The Imperial Style

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870992325
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Style written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1980 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the book based on the hugely successful exhibition Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 1979 through August 1980. The show presented more than 150 costumes, uniforms, and military and equestrian trappings dating from the eighteenth century in Austria and Hungary to the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918. But at the heart of the exhibition were the costumes and liveries worn at court in the late nineteenth century, during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth—one of the most highly romantic periods in European history ... Each essay is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, with eighteen specially commissioned color plates of costumes and accouterments in the exhibition. A detailed chronology of the years between 1699 and 1918 and a selected bibliography are included"--Metropolitan Museum of Art website, viewed May 16, 2022.

Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna

Author : C. R. F. Maunder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198166375
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (663 download)

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Book Synopsis Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna by : C. R. F. Maunder

Download or read book Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna written by C. R. F. Maunder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard music, especially by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, is among the most popular ever written, there has been surprisingly little serious research into the instruments for which it was composed. This book fills that gap. Based on evidence from primary source material, much of it previously undiscovered or neglected, Maunder traces the history and development of the various keyboard instruments available in Vienna throughout the eighteenth century--harpsichords, clavichords, and pianos--and their use by composers and performers.

Rebel Modernists

Author : Liane Lefaivre
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848222052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Rebel Modernists by : Liane Lefaivre

Download or read book Rebel Modernists written by Liane Lefaivre and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de siecle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces of the twentieth century such as Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn stations, his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos's American Bar and Goldman & Salastch, the Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet, not to mention Ludwig Wittgenstein's House for his sister. Beginning with Wagner's polemical manifesto, Moderne Architektur, it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for most of the twentieth century and ultimately produced much of what is modern in every field of culture and science. It shows how leading cultural figures such as Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Klimt and Twain encouraged a 'rebellious' architecture, which continued in later eras with the Wiener Gruppe, amongst others. The book also places architectural history within the context of the political economy that has shaped Vienna and highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s. Today, 60% of Vienna's population lives in the most successful social housing in the world, which has proved to be an important factor in stimulating the highly successful economy of the country as a whole.

A Companion to Medieval Vienna

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395768
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Vienna written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a multidisciplinary view on the complexity of an emerging city, offering, for the first time in English, an overview of the current state of research on Vienna in the Middle Ages.

Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna

Author : Caroline A Kita
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253040566
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna by : Caroline A Kita

Download or read book Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna written by Caroline A Kita and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism. The only problem was that their works were deeply antisemitic and entangled with claims that Jews were incapable of creating compassionate art. By looking at the works of Jewish composers and writers who contributed to a lively and robust biblical theatre in fin de siècle Vienna, Caroline A. Kita shows how they reimagined myths of the Old Testament to offer new aesthetic and ethical views of compassion. These Jewish artists, including Gustav Mahler, Siegfried Lipiner, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Stefan Zweig, and Arnold Schoenberg, reimagined biblical stories through the lens of the modern Jewish subject to plead for justice and compassion toward the Jewish community. By tracing responses to antisemitic discourses of compassion, Kita reflects on the explicitly and increasingly troubled political and social dynamics at the end of the Habsburg Empire.

The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Author : Charlotte Ashby
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457659
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture by : Charlotte Ashby

Download or read book The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture written by Charlotte Ashby and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521453493
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria written by David Wyn Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven forms a cornerstone of the modern repertoire, but very little is known about the context in which these composers worked. This volume of twelve essays by leading international scholars covers some of the musical traditions and practices of this little-understood period of music history. Beginning with the early decades of the eighteenth century, the volume documents selected aspects of musical life and style from the late Baroque period to the early years of the nineteenth century. The four main areas covered in this exploration of new territories in music history are orchestral music, sacred music, opera and keyboard music. Georg Reutter (Haydn's teacher), Antonio Salieri (Mozart's colleague) and Joseph Wolfl (a rival of Beethoven) are only three of the prominent musicians of the period who are discussed at length.

The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914

Author : Marsha L. Rozenblit
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418159
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914 by : Marsha L. Rozenblit

Download or read book The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914 written by Marsha L. Rozenblit and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ablaze with excitement, effervescent with creativity—late nineteenth-century Vienna was the ideal site for this analysis of the ways in which a sizable and significant group of Jews was assimilated into European society. After leaving homes in the Austrian and Hungarian provinces and migrating to the Austrian capital, the Jews underwent a variety of profound changes. The Jews of Vienna shows how they successfully transformed old, identifiably Jewish patterns of behavior into modern urban variations, without abandoning their ethnic identity in the process. Marsha L. Rozenblit describes the Jews' migration to Vienna, the occupational changes they experienced in the city, where and how they lived, the various means they used to achieve social integration, and the vibrant network of Jewish organizations they established. As they evolved new patterns of urban Jewish life, the Viennese immigrants also created ideologies which defined the place of the Jew in European society. Rozenblit shows how this urbanization led to social change while simultaneously providing the necessary demographic foundation for continued Jewish identity in modern Europe.

Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938

Author : Michelle Jackson-Beckett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198879512
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 by : Michelle Jackson-Beckett

Download or read book Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 written by Michelle Jackson-Beckett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, and arts. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 explores why and how the Viennese design landscape was set apart--aesthetically and theoretically--from other European explorations of modern design. Jackson-Beckett examines interior design exhibitions, press, and debates about modern living in interwar Vienna, an overlooked area of modern European architecture and design history, arguing for a reconsideration of the contours of European modernism. The text analyses varied interpretations of modern domestic culture (Wohnkultur) in Vienna, and explores why these interpretations were distinct from other strands of European modernism. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur introduces new research and translation of primary sources on flexible, adaptable, and affordable design by architects, designers, and retailers. Vienna's design discourse also prefigured important postmodern and contemporary discussions on historicism, eclecticism, empathy, and user experience. Through extensive new research in archival and period sources, Jackson-Beckett illustrates how design ideas, taste, and portrayals of domestic culture of fin-de-si?cle Viennese Modernism (Wiener Moderne) were also deployed as forms of cultural and national identity both during the early years of the Social Democratic government in Vienna (1918-1934) and later under the fascist state (1934-1938).

Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts

Author : Karl W. Steininger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319124579
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts written by Karl W. Steininger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the multifaceted and interdependent impacts of climate change on society from the perspective of a broad set of disciplines. The main objective of the book is to assess public and private cost of climate change as far as quantifiable, while taking into account the high degree of uncertainty. It offers new insights for the economic assessment of a broad range of climate change impact chains at a national scale. The framework presented in the book allows consistent evaluation including mutual interdependencies and macroeconomic feedback. This book develops a toolbox that can be used across the many areas of climate impact and applies it to one particular country: Austria.

The Moral and Market Economies of Bread

Author : Jonas Albrecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350398489
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Moral and Market Economies of Bread written by Jonas Albrecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the bread market had wide-reaching and significant consequences for a society who relied on this foodstuff to live. Before 1860 the production and selling of bread was embedded into a moral economy with distinct regulations. But as the grain market expanded and new cereal varieties arrived from the empire's peripheries reformers sought to create a 'free' market through liberalizing reforms. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread shows that while terminating market regulation did mobilize and diversify Vienna's bread market in spatial terms, it intensified inequality among consumers. As opaque prices, non-transparent market procedures and diverging power relations between producers and consumers led to unrest, city officials and bakers struggled to meet the shortcomings of the free market from within. This book brings economic, social and urban histories together and employs a spatial approach and GIS methods to explore the relationship between market and society, and capitalism at large.