World in Spectacular Light
Hal Foster: Bauhaus in Exile, 5 December 2024
Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders 1930-60
by Robin Schuldenfrei.
Princeton, 345 pp., £55, January,978 0 691 23266 9 Show More
by Robin Schuldenfrei.
Princeton, 345 pp., £55, January,
“... the US. Since they weren’t forced to leave, they were more émigrés than refugees. In fact, as Robin Schuldenfrei shows in her excellent Objects in Exile, emigration was an experience of adaptation and success as well as loss and estrangement, at least for the big names. Paradoxically, she argues, the dispersal of the Bauhaus was another way for it to ... ”
