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DESCRIPTION:In 1922 the young designer Jan Tschichold traveled to Offenbach
  to meet Rudolf Koch\, the presiding genius of German Schriftkunst (letter
 ing art) and designer of the finest Gothic typefaces. This was a telling m
 oment\, revealing two competing views of letterforms in modern German cult
 ure\, contrasting historicism with modernism\, nationalism with universali
 ty\, and the expressive as opposed to the machine aesthetic of Constructiv
 ism. Following this event\, Tschichold turned away from Koch\, looking ins
 tead to El Lissitzky\, Kurt Schwitters\, and László Moholy-Nagy\, pioneers
  of New Typography. In this talk\, Paul Stirton explores these debates of 
 the 1920s and beyond\, tracing the development of two opposing views of mo
 dernity in German culture.Paul Stirton’s current research and publications
  are mostly concentrated in two areas: architecture and design in Britain 
 and Central Europe (primarily Hungary) in the late nineteenth and early tw
 entieth centuries. He has a particular interest in graphic design\, interi
 ors\, and print culture\, although his recent work has been concerned with
  public monuments and cultural transfer or emigration. Stirton’s approach 
 to this body of material is largely concerned with the relationship betwee
 n contemporary theoretical and critical writings and the actual objects th
 emselves. This dialectical relationship between texts and things lies behi
 nd the selected writings of the English architect-designer E. W. Godwin\, 
 which he edited with Juliet Kinchin (2005)\, and various articles and essa
 ys of his on Hungarian designers\, such as Károly Kós\, Lajos Kozma\, and 
 Laszlo Peri.Professor Emeritus\, Editor in Chief of West 86th: A Journal o
 f Decorative Arts\, Design History\, and Material Culture
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Gothic vs. Modern
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