Los Angeles Book Launch
Escape Home — Rebuilding a Life after the Anschluss
By Charles Paterson and Carrie Paterson
Santa Monica Public Library
Sunday, July 21, 2013
2pm – 3:30pm
Wien Museum Presentation
Wien Museum
November 30, 2012
Works by Claire Beck Loos in Vienna
Vienna’s Shooting Girls: Jewish Women Photographers in Vienna
Oct. 23, 2012 – March 3, 2013.
Works by Claire Beck Loos, Madame d’Ora, Trude Fleischmann, Edith Tudor Hart, and Hilde Zipper-Strnad, among others. Curated by Iris Meder and Andrea Winklbauer.
A Model for New Living
Charles Paterson interview and Schanzer Family archives included in Wien Museum architecture exhibition:
Sept. 6, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013.
Curated by Eva-Maria Orosz and Andreas Nierhaus.
Frankfurt Rights – Salvation Canyon excerpts
A Los Angeles poet’s hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills. Ed Rosenthal, “The Poet-Broker”, advocates for historic properties in downtown… Read more Frankfurt Rights – Salvation Canyon excerpts →
Frankfurt Rights – The Private Adolf Loos
NOTE: CZ RIGHTS AVAILABLE, AS WELL AS ALL OTHER LANGUAGES. Lively and often humorous vignettes by the last wife of the early Modern architect Adolf Loos are featured in an intimate biography by Claire Beck Loos. “Snapshots” of the last years of Loos’ life (1929–1933) reveal the personality and philosophy that helped shape Modern architecture in Vienna and the Czech lands. An introduction and biographies frame the first English translation of the work, which was originally published in German in 1936. Supplemental texts and photographs also included. PRAISE The theatrical… Read more Frankfurt Rights – The Private Adolf Loos →
Frankfurt Rights – A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia
A daughter breaks the family silence about her mother’s schizophrenia, reframing hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens. 272 pages.August 2020. Paperback.Ebook also available. $18.95 | 9781733957908 Claire Phillips’ elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work also becomes a startling reflection on mother-daughter relationships during the evolution of 20th-century feminism.… Read more Frankfurt Rights – A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia →