Hardback. Condition: New. 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.
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Hardback. Condition: New. 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.
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler's epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant.Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler's most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to editors after World War II but left unpublished. In its holistic view of habitation through the lens of anthropology, ecology, and the life sciences, Magic Architecture is one of the most extraordinary texts on architecture written in the twentieth century, now at last published in the twenty-first. Kiesler's exploration of the effects of modern technology in combination with the alternative epistemology of "magical" practices associated with cave drawings and the first artifacts of human industry reflects his profoundly interdisciplinary perspective on the development of art, architecture, and design.This critical edition preserves Kiesler's conception of the book as a neo-Vitruvian treatise divided into ten parts that narrate an alternative history and theory of architecture. Also included are more than seventy composite plate illustrations consisting of images cut and pasted from books and popular science journals, with elaborate captions, as well as Kiesler's own line drawings made specifically for this project. The editors have reassembled the book's text and illustrations from archival documents, supplementing them with notes that trace the copious development of the work. Introductory essays provide an interpretation of key themes and bibliographic sources, as well as a chronological context of the architect's research. Appendixes offer additional textual and visual material gathered by Kiesler for the project. The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler s epoch-spanning history of human architecture, largely unknown but still relevant. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Grey cloth boards with photograph. 359 pages illustrations, facsimiles, plan, portraits. Contents: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword /; Rashid, Hani --; Introduction /; Bogner, Peter --; 1. Face to Face with the Avant-Garde /; Zillner, Gerd --; 2. Kiesler's Berlin (1921-1926), Theater and the November Group /; Welzbacher, Christian --; 3. Frederick Kiesler, Berthold Viertel and Karl Kraus Between Vienna, Berlin and New York /; Prager, Katharina --; 4. The Kieslers and the Tietzes /; Bogner, Dieter / Zillner, Gerd --; 5. Frederick Kiesler, the Bauhaus and the Bauhaus-Stage /; Blume, Torsten --; 6. Frederick Kiesler and the Futurists /; Bedarida, Raffaele --; 7. Parallel Avant-Gardes in Vienna /; Galácz, Judit / Pál Szeredi, Merse --; 8. Frederick Kiesler and Theo van Doesburg /; McGuire, Laura --; 9. Frederick Kiesler and Piet Mondrian /; Grabach, Tilo --; 10. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Richter /; Meißner-Wolfbeisser, Jill --; 11. George Antheil, Kiesler's first American Friend /; Piccinini, Mauro --; 12. Frederick Kiesler and the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen /; Friedman, Marilyn F. --; 13. The Friendship Between Hans Arp and Frederick Kiesler /; Buhmann, Stephanie --; 14. Frederick Kiesler and Sigfried Giedion /; Grunewald, Almut --; 15. Frederick Kiesler and Marcel Duchamp /; Kauffman, Alexander --; 16. Arshile Gorky and Frederick Kiesler /; Taylor, Michael --; 17. Frederick Kiesler and Sidney Janis /; Janis, Carroll --; 18. Frederick Kiesler and Hans Hofmann /; Barnes, Lucinda --; 19. A Personal Memory /; Wines, James --; 20. Frederick Kiesler and Piero Dorazio /; Sonzogni, Valentina --; 21. Kiesler facing Jerusalem /; Shapira, Elana --; Index --; Authors' Biographies --; Credits --; Imprint.
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