Full Description
A new approach to modern art shaped by exile and migration.
In the 1930s and 1940s, London was a metropolis of artistic exile and a place of refuge from Nazi persecution. London Exile is the first book to look at the British capital as a sanctuary for modern artists. The city presented its new arrivals with opportunities and challenges: exiles established galleries, founded publishing houses and magazines, collaborated with local artists, organised exhibitions, published their work, and built networks. Artistic and theoretical production flourished in close dialogue with urban space.
This volume sheds light on how the arrival of exiles transformed London's art scene and, conversely, how the experience of displacement and the city shaped the work of émigrés in fields such as art, architecture, and photography. London Exile brings art history, urban studies, and exile studies into a vibrant dialogue and contributes to a new understanding of the history of modern art.
Contents
Prologue: London, Metropolis of Artistic Exile 9
Arrival and Orientation: Address Books, Street Maps, and Undergrounds 23
Neighbourhoods, Streets, and Houses: Exile History as Urban History 41
Gendered London: Gender, Sexuality, and Exile 65
Émigrés Build for Émigrés 83
Transplanted Objects: Sigmund Freud's Collection and Chair 103
Sculpture, Modernity, and Exile: Jussuf Abbo in London 121
From Bauhaus to the Thames: Textile Designs by Margaret Leischner 143
In the Blitz: Helmut Gernheim's Photographs of National Monuments 161
Portrait of a City: Streets and Faces of Exile 179
London Zoo: Animal, City, and Exile 203
Storytelling in Pictures: Stefan Lorant and the Picture Post Photographers 249
Reading Exile: Publishers and Books as Multipliers 281
Immortal Portraits: Exile, London, and the Historiography of Early Photography 305
Back to History: Ludwig Meidner and the British Caricature 325
Pencil as Weapon: Richard Ziegler, Walter Trier, and Die Zeitung 337
Exhibited Exile: Exhibitions by and with Émigrés 361
Show It: Galleries as Places of Distribution of Modernity in Exile 381
Allies inside Germany and English Art and the Mediterranean: Exhibitions in and outside London 413
Beyond London: Rosa Schapire, Expressionism, and/in Leicester 441
Epilogue: Self-descriptions of Exile - A Look Back 463
Afterword and Acknowledgements 475
Notes 479
Bibliography 537
Index of Persons, Institutions, and Periodicals 589
