Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902 1913
2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jdh/epm021
ISSN1741-7279
Autores Tópico(s)Architecture, Design, and Social History
ResumoThe ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ is perhaps one of the most tantalizing, but also challenging, aspects of fin-de-siècle visual culture with which to engage, especially in the material forms of a printed volume and a public exhibition. The contested historical and aesthetic frameworks required to articulate fundamental concepts at the heart of the ‘total work of art’, such as synaesthesia, require a nuanced critical language deemed by most Heads of Interpretation as inaccessible to a general readership and exhibition visitor. Pragmatically, ‘total’ interiors require the curatorial and design teams to achieve particular collegiality, in attempting to display and analyse distinct sectors of visual culture in a coherent installation. To evoke these transitory achievements on the printed page is equally problematic. The Neue Galerie and the publishers Prestel are to be applauded for engaging with this challenge with imagination and skill. This lavishly illustrated catalogue, which accompanied the exhibition held at the Neue Galerie...
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