Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson studies and teaches the history of modern design. His interests include interiors and domesticity, design exhibitions and media, psychological theories in design, and the global history of modernism. Publications have appeared in the journals West 86th, Centropa, Journal of Design History, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Austrian History Yearbook, German History, and Burlington Magazine, and in books including On Edge: Interior Provocations, Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism, Making Home: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Reform of Everyday Life, Klimt und der Ringstrasse, and Performance, Fashion, and the Modern Interior. As Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis in Vienna he conducted research on a book manuscript, recently completed, titled The Chromatic Unconscious: Sigmund Freud and the Experience of Design in Vienna’s Age of Color. His current book project, Ulm in the World, looks at the politics and pedagogy of Third World development at the Ulm School of Design in 1960s West Germany.