Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson studies and teaches the history of modern design. He has written on
topics including exhibitions, color theory, Sigmund Freud’s office and the
mass-marketing of furniture. Articles and reviews have appeared in the journals
West
86th, Centropa, Journal of Design History
and Nineteenth-Century
Art Worldwide
and in books including Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture
and Viennese Modernism
(Vienna, 2018), Making Home: The Arts
and Crafts Movement and the Reform of Everyday Life
(New Haven, 2018), Klimt
und der Ringstrasse
(Vienna, 2015) and Performance, Fashion,
and the Modern Interior
(Oxford, 2011). He has lectured
recently in China, Greece and the UK and spent a semester as a Fulbright Fellow
at the Sigmund Freud Museum and University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Academic research/areas of interest
- The domestic interior
- Museums, exhibitions, display and media
- Design and the social sciences (anthropology, ethnography, psychology)
- Cultural history of Austria and Germany
- Global design history
On sabbatical academic year 19 / 20
- Eric Anderson
- Associate Professor
- eanderso02@risd.edu
- 401-277-4871
- Eric Anderson’s CV
- BA, Williams College
- PHD, Columbia University