Melbourne modern: European art and design at RMIT since 1945

"Melbourne Modern celebrates the contribution of European émigré artists, architects and designers who taught at RMIT after 1945. It surveys the work of Viennese architects, German, Czech and Baltic sculptors and silversmiths, and Dutch and British designers. It also includes migrants who arriv...

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1. Verfasser: Eckett, Jane L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Melbourne RMIT Gallery 2019
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Zusammenfassung:"Melbourne Modern celebrates the contribution of European émigré artists, architects and designers who taught at RMIT after 1945. It surveys the work of Viennese architects, German, Czech and Baltic sculptors and silversmiths, and Dutch and British designers. It also includes migrants who arrived in Australia as children and Australian-born artists whose formative experiences in Europe influence their teaching. Collectively their stories illuminate RMIT's model of inclusion. The profound impact of émigré teaching on the new pedagogy that developed in the 1950s through the 1970s placed the RMIT School of Art and Applied Art at the forefront of Australian art and design education. Melbourne Modern examines the legacy of this rich and educational experiment today."--Gate fold
Beschreibung:Catalogue of an RMIT exhibtion held from 21 June - 17 August 2019
In the wake of World War II hundreds of exiled and displaced European artists, architects and designers arrived in Melbourne and sought employment with the Melbourne Technical College (later renamed Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, then RMIT University). Curated by Dr Jane Eckett and Professor Harriet Edquist, Melbourne Modern: European Art and Design at RMIT since 1945 traces a legacy of European intervention and interdisciplinarity through successive generations of RMIT teachers and students to the present day. It explores how modernist ideas were applied to specific design briefs to solve real world problems in the context of a working class technical college. This is a fascinating and complicated story to tell. These émigré educators had undergone atelier training in various arts schools across Europe including the academies of Budapest, Berlin, Kaunas, Munich, Vienna and Vilnius to name a handful.
They did not bring with them one single monolithic modernism, but rather a constellation of ideas and philosophies that reflected their individual experiences. However, common to all was the desire for an interdisciplinary approach to education, whereby architects studied drawing and sculpture, sculptors studied design, and designers studied painting. Reflecting this interdisciplinary cross-pollination, the exhibition features works in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, prints, architectural models, textiles, ceramics, silverware, jewellery, photography, film, graphic design and industrial design. Alongside works by the European teachers are examples of their students' works, as well as students of those students up until the present day, underscoring the Europeans' long-term impact. The exhibition also features rarely seen archival material in the form of documentary photographs, posters and teaching materials.
Many of the works are drawn from the RMIT University Art Collection and RMIT Design Archives, and have rarely if ever been publicly exhibited. Melbourne Modern coincides with the centenary of the founding of the Weimar Bauhaus. While the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue explores aspects of post-war modernism in Australia, particularly its pedagogical dissemination, it also focuses on modernist intervention in the unique environment of the historic Melbourne Technical College. It expands upon a burgeoning field of modernist studies in Australia, while highlighting RMIT's links to a long European lineage of technical education and design reform. This catalogue features scholarly essays by the curators, Sheridan Palmer, Victoria Perin, and Sarah Scott
Beschreibung:151 pages illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (chiefly colour), portraits 29 cm
ISBN:9780648422655
0648422658

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