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OverviewArchitect, designer and theorist Josef Frank (1885-1967) was known throughout Europe in the 1920s as one of the continent's leading modernists. Yet despite his tremendous contributions to the development of modernism, Frank has been largely excluded from histories of the movement. This is the first English-language study that comprehensively explores the life, ideas and practices of this complex and controversial figure. Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences. He was able to put these ideas into practice when, in 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna for Sweden. There his work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design. For more than 30 years he was the chief designer for the Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, producing colourful, cozy and eclectic designs that proved a refreshing altnerative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s. In this insightful and sensitive study of one of the 20th-century's seminal architects and thinkers, Christopher Lang offers new insight into Josef Frank's work and ideas and provides an important contribution to the understanding of modernist culture and its history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher LongPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Edition: 2nd ed. Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 26.00cm Weight: 1.640kg ISBN: 9780226492667ISBN 10: 0226492664 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 15 April 2001 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsChristopher Long's intensive involvement in the study of Josef Frank has led to a book that does yeoman service for the English-speaking reader by presenting a comprehensive, carefully researched, and elegantly presented account of the life and work of this gifted designer who has been unduly neglected in much of twentieth-century architectural history. - Eduard F. Sekler, Harvard University Author InformationChristopher Long is assistant professor of architectural history and theory at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the translator of Kristina Wangberg-Eriksson's Josef Frank som monsterkonstnar (Josef Frank: Textile Designs). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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