Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde : : Essays on Network and Impact /

Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde : : Essays on Network and Impact / / ed. by Frederick Kiesler Foundation, Peter Bogner, Gerd Zillner.

Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the who’s who of the avant-garde. He was an important intermediary between the visionary ideas of the European Moderne movement and the up-and-coming New York art scene. About 20 contributions portray his colorful life and h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Barnes, Lucinda,
Bedarida, Raffaele,
Blume, Torsten,
Bogner, Dieter,
Bogner, Peter,
Buhmann, Stephanie,
Friedman, Marilyn F.,
Galácz, Judit,
Grabach, Tilo,
Grunewald, Almut,
Janis, Carroll,
Kauffman, Alexander,
McGuire, Laura,
Meißner-Wolfbeisser, Jill,
Piccinini, Mauro,
Prager, Katharina,
Pál Szeredi, Merse,
Rashid, Hani,
Shapira, Elana,
Sonzogni, Valentina,
Taylor, Michael,
Welzbacher, Christian,
Wines, James,
Zillner, Gerd,
HerausgeberIn:
Bogner, Peter,
Frederick Kiesler Foundation, ,
Zillner, Gerd,
TeilnehmendeR:
Rashid, Hani.
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Face to Face with the Avant-Garde
  • 2. Kiesler’s Berlin (1921–1926), Theater and the November Group
  • 3. Frederick Kiesler, Berthold Viertel and Karl Kraus Between Vienna, Berlin and New York
  • 4. The Kieslers and the Tietzes
  • 5. Frederick Kiesler, the Bauhaus and the Bauhaus-Stage
  • 6. Frederick Kiesler and the Futurists
  • 7. Parallel Avant-Gardes in Vienna
  • 8. Frederick Kiesler and Theo van Doesburg
  • 9. Frederick Kiesler and Piet Mondrian
  • 10. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Richter
  • 11. George Antheil, Kiesler’s first American Friend
  • 12. Frederick Kiesler and the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen
  • 13. The Friendship Between Hans Arp and Frederick Kiesler
  • 14. Frederick Kiesler and Sigfried Giedion
  • 15. Frederick Kiesler and Marcel Duchamp
  • 16. Arshile Gorky and Frederick Kiesler
  • 17. Frederick Kiesler and Sidney Janis
  • 18. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Hofmann
  • 19. A Personal Memory
  • 20. Frederick Kiesler and Piero Dorazio
  • 21. Kiesler facing Jerusalem
  • Index
  • Authors’ Biographies
  • Credits
  • Imprint

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