Edited with text by Tano Bojankin, Caterina Cardamone, Hermann Czech, Christopher Long, Claudia Mazanek, Otto Kapfinger. Introduction by Christopher Long. Text by Josef Frank.
An exile in the United States, Frank penned his critiques of 20th-century modernism as a reaction to the political climate before World War II
Architect and designer Josef Frank (1885–1967) believed that modern art had fallen prey to European totalitarianism, which was quickly spreading to the United States. This annotated collection of his unpublished writings includes a letter on Piet Mondrian before the latter’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Josef Frank: Reflections on the Art of Our Time Volume 3: Unpublished Writings 1
Published by KANT. Edited with text by Tano Bojankin, Caterina Cardamone, Hermann Czech, Christopher Long, Claudia Mazanek, Otto Kapfinger. Introduction by Christopher Long. Text by Josef Frank.
An exile in the United States, Frank penned his critiques of 20th-century modernism as a reaction to the political climate before World War II
Architect and designer Josef Frank (1885–1967) believed that modern art had fallen prey to European totalitarianism, which was quickly spreading to the United States. This annotated collection of his unpublished writings includes a letter on Piet Mondrian before the latter’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
