Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960 Isokon Plus Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser

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Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930–1960 Isokon Plus Swantje Kuhfuss-WickenheiserHardcover, 352 pages By Robin Schuldenfrei In the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile infused their modernist ideas with new urgency and forced them to use certain materials in place of others, modify existing works, and reconsider their approach to design itself. In Objects in Exile, Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the