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Joseph Urban
Joseph Urban is a lavish celebration of this prolific artist, architect, and designer, whose accomplishments include magnificent Art Deco buildings, spectacular Ziegfeld Follies productions, and dramatic sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Joseph Urban (1872–1933) began his career as an architect and artist in Vienna before moving to America in 1911. In 1914 he moved to New York, where he ultimately signed on as set designer of the Metropolitan Opera. He also became immersed in an astonishing array of outside projects, designing nightclubs, hotel lounges, skyscrapers, theaters, stage and film sets, and even children’s books. Though his creative output was immense, little remains of his work except the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, and the New School and the base of the Hearst Tower in New York. Praise for Joseph Urban: "a trove of his luminous renderings and photos" --Elle Décor
Joseph Urban
Der in Mahren geborene (1871) und an der Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Wien bei Otto Wagner von 1894-98 ausgebildete Architekt Hubert Gessner war der massgebende Architekt der Bauten der osterreichischen sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterbewegung. Zwischen 1901 und 1934 errichtete er samtliche wichtige Bauten fur die Austromarxisten (u. a. Arbeiterheim Favoriten, Wien, 1901; Partei- und Verlagsgebaude Vorwarts, Wien, 1909; Hammerbrotwerke, Schwechat, 1909; Lassalle-Hof, Wien, 1924; Reumann-Hof, Wien, 1924; Arbeiterkammer, Linz, 1928; Arbeiterkammer, Graz, 1929). Massgebend war er vor allem mit seiner Suche nach einem adaquaten Baustil fur die fortschrittsorientierte Arbeiterpartei, deren Macht...
Joseph Urban
Extensively illustrated with oringinal sketches, watercolours, plans and photographs of Urban's work both in Vienna and America, detailed biography covering the full breadth of his work, tall quarto bound in dark blue cloth, fine copy in fine dustwrapper, check postage a large heavy book which may require additional postage. Renaissance man Joseph Urban (1872-1933) is rediscovered in this first full-scale biography and appreciation. Urban acquired a reputation in fin-de-siecle Vienna for architecture, stage design, and book illustration. He arrived in America in 1911 to design productions for the Boston Opera and stayed to make an impact on theater stagecraft, opera and movie sets, Art Deco and International Style architecture, and industrial design. Relying on the vast Urban Archives at Columbia University and interviews with Urban's daughter Gretl, this rigorously researched and lavishly illustrated volume (with 282 images, 129 in color) revives the spirit and personality of one of the century's most talented designers. An important choice for academic and larger public libraries with specialized interests.
Joseph Urban
A study of one of America's most important designers, in particular the Art Deco bedroom he created for the teenage Elaine Wormser.
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Inventing Times Square
A unique volume, Inventing Times Square approaches the subject of twentieth-century American city culture through a multidimensional examination of one quintessential urban space: Times Square. Ranging in time from 1905, when the crossroad was given its present name, through to the current plans for redevelopment, the authors examine Times Square as economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment center, advertising medium, architectural experiment, and erotic netherworld. Though the volume centers on Times Square, the essays venture much further into urban history and American social history, revealing in the process how Times Square reflected—even epitomized—America as it became an urban consumer culture.
American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism
An inclusive history of the professionalization of American scenic design The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. As productions moved away from standardized, painted scenery and toward individualized scenic design, the demand for talented new designers grew. Within decades, scenic designers reinvented themselves as professional artists. They ran their own studios, proudly displayed their names on Broadway playbills, and even appeared in magazine and television profiles. American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism tells the history of the field through the figures, institutions, and movements that helped create and shape th...
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929
During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.
