Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde
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Author: Peter Bogner & Gerd Zillner (eds.)
Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) 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 colourful life and his multifaceted oeuvre in various contexts, and place Kiesler in a dialogue with the most important artists and architects of his time.The publication on the occasion of the 20 year anniversary of the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation deals with his relationship with the Bauhaus, surrealism, and the New York School, as well as with personalities such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Hans Arp, Sigfried Giedion, and others.
ISBN 9783035615500. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 296 pages. 150 b/w ills. 23.2 x 17 cm.
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Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) 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 colourful life and his multifaceted oeuvre in various contexts, and place Kiesler in a dialogue with the most important artists and architects of his time.The publication on the occasion of the 20 year anniversary of the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation deals with his relationship with the Bauhaus, surrealism, and the New York School, as well as with personalities such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Hans Arp, Sigfried Giedion, and others.
ISBN 9783035615500. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 296 pages. 150 b/w ills. 23.2 x 17 cm.
available