{"product_id":"objects-in-exile-modern-art-and-design-across-borders-1930-1960","title":"Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robin Schuldenfrei\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the most interesting and essential texts on modernism to be written in the last decade. . . . Schuldenfrei has made a fairly niche art historical subject incredibly approachable with brilliant but accessible text. . . . [\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eObjects in Exile\u003c\/span\u003e] is a phenomenally well researched and important text on the subject and should be required reading for anyone interested in modern art and design.\"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e---Angelina Lippert,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\"A thought-provoking read that sheds light on the hidden narratives of objects and their profound influence on our collective heritage.\"-- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Metropolis\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile infused their modernist ideas with new urgency and forced them to use certain materials in place of others, modify existing works, and reconsider their approach to design itself. In \u003cem\u003eObjects in Exile\u003c\/em\u003e, Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the process of migration was crucial to the development of modernism, charting how modern art and architecture was shaped by the need to constantly face—and transcend—the materiality of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking readers from the prewar era to the 1960s, Schuldenfrei explores the objects these émigrés brought with them, what they left behind, and the new works they completed in exile. She argues that modernism could only coalesce with the abandonment of national borders in a process of emigration and resettlement, and brings to life the vibrant postwar period when avant-garde ideas came together and emerged as mainstream modernism. Examining works by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Herbert Bayer, Anni and Josef Albers, and others, Schuldenfrei demonstrates the social impact of art objects produced in exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, \u003cem\u003eObjects in Exile\u003c\/em\u003e shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e352 pages | \u003cspan\u003e76 color + 82 black-and-white illustrations \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinceton University Press, 2024\u003cbr\u003e7.5 x 10.5 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780691232669     \u003cbr\u003eModernism\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48065113358504,"sku":"9780691232669","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Objects-in-Exile_Modern-Art-and-Design-Across-Borders.jpg?v=1715208018","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/objects-in-exile-modern-art-and-design-across-borders-1930-1960","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}