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Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde

Essays on Network and Impact
  • Edited by: Peter Bogner , Gerd Zillner and Frederick Kiesler Foundation
  • Preface by: Hani Rashid
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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Network of superlatives

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 his multifaceted oeuvre in various contexts, and place Kiesler in a dialog 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.

  • An interwoven analysis of his life and work
  • Contributions on individual and case studies
  • Kiesler and Bauhaus, Mondrian, Buckminster Fuller, Duchamp, and many others

Author / Editor information

Peter Bogner and Gerd Zillner, Director and Senior Researcher Ferderick Kiesler Foundation

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

    7
    Hani Rashid
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    Introduction

    9
    Peter Bogner
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    1. Face to Face with the Avant-Garde

    15
    Gerd Zillner
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    2. Kiesler’s Berlin (1921–1926), Theater and the November Group

    53
    Christian Welzbacher
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    3. Frederick Kiesler, Berthold Viertel and Karl Kraus Between Vienna, Berlin and New York

    67
    Katharina Prager
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    4. The Kieslers and the Tietzes

    83
    Dieter Bogner and Gerd Zillner
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    5. Frederick Kiesler, the Bauhaus and the Bauhaus-Stage

    97
    Torsten Blume
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    6. Frederick Kiesler and the Futurists

    115
    Raffaele Bedarida
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    7. Parallel Avant-Gardes in Vienna

    135
    Judit Galácz and Merse Pál Szeredi
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    8. Frederick Kiesler and Theo van Doesburg

    151
    Laura McGuire
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    9. Frederick Kiesler and Piet Mondrian

    165
    Tilo Grabach
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    10. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Richter

    177
    Jill Meißner-Wolfbeisser
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    11. George Antheil, Kiesler’s first American Friend

    193
    Mauro Piccinini
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    12. Frederick Kiesler and the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen

    207
    Marilyn F. Friedman
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    13. The Friendship Between Hans Arp and Frederick Kiesler

    219
    Stephanie Buhmann
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    14. Frederick Kiesler and Sigfried Giedion

    237
    Almut Grunewald
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    15. Frederick Kiesler and Marcel Duchamp

    249
    Alexander Kauffman
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    16. Arshile Gorky and Frederick Kiesler

    265
    Michael Taylor
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    17. Frederick Kiesler and Sidney Janis

    281
    Carroll Janis
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    18. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Hofmann

    287
    Lucinda Barnes
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    19. A Personal Memory

    299
    James Wines
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    20. Frederick Kiesler and Piero Dorazio

    315
    Valentina Sonzogni
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    21. Kiesler facing Jerusalem

    329
    Elana Shapira
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    Index

    346
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    Authors’ Biographies

    356
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    Credits

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    Imprint

    360
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 8, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783035615418
Hardcover published on:
July 8, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783035615500
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
360
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035615418
eBook ISBN: 9783035615418
Hardcover ISBN: 9783035615500
Keywords for this book
New York art scene; modernism; modern art; Jewish museum; Bauhaus; surrealism; Richard Buckminster Fuller; New York School; Marcel Duchamp; Arshile Gorky; Theo van Doesburg; Piet Mondrian; Hans Arp; Sigfried Giedion; correalism
Audience(s) for this book
Architekten, Künstler, Architektur- und Kunsthistoriker, Studenten der Fachrichtungen
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