Title & Author:

Bauhaus culture : from Weimar to the Cold War / Kathleen James-Chakraborty, editor.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.

Description:

xix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.
Wilhelmine precedents for the Bauhaus : Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian state, and the German Werkbund / John V. Maciuika -- Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius : between avoidance and imitation / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- From metaphysics to material culture : painting and photography at the Bauhaus / Rose Carol Washton Long -- Architecture, building, and the Bauhaus / Wallis Miller -- Bauhaus theater of human dolls / Juliet Koss -- Utopia for sale : the Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture / Frederic J. Schwartz -- Bauhaus architecture in the Third Reich / Winfried Nerdinger -- From isolationism to internationalism : American acceptance of the Bauhaus / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- The Bauhaus in Cold War Germany / Greg Castillo.

Summary:

"Offering the first comprehensive training in the visual arts grounded in abstraction, the Bauhaus was the site of a dazzling range of influential experiments in painting, architecture, photography, industrial design, and even artistic education itself. Three-quarters of a century later, the 'look' of the new remains indebted to the Bauhaus and its equation of technology with modernism. Central to discussions of the relationships between art, industrialization, and politics in the twentieth century, much of the school's later impact was derived in part from its status as one of the foremost cultural symbols of Germany's first democracy and its public reputation as a 'cathedral of socialism'.
In this book, editor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and seven other scholars analyze the accomplishments and dispel the myths of the Bauhaus, placing it firmly in a historical context from before the formation of the Weimar Republic through Nazi ascendancy and World War II into the cold war. Together, they investigate its professors' and students' interactions with mass culture; establish the complexity of its relationship with Wilhelmine, Nazi, and postwar German politics; and challenge the claim that its architects greatly influenced American architecture in the 1930s. Their most explosive conclusions address the degree to which some aspects of Bauhaus design continued to flourish during the Third Reich before becoming one of the cold war7F 19s most enduring emblems of artistic freedom. In doing so, Bauhaus Culture calls into question the degree to which this influential school should continue to symbolize an uncomplicated relationship between art, modern technology, and progressive politics."--Publisher's website.

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ISBN:

0816646872 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816646876 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816646880 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780816646883 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Bauhaus Influence.
Art schools Social aspects Germany.
Art Study and teaching Germany History 20th century.
Art Étude et enseignement Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Écoles des Beaux-Arts Aspect social Allemagne.
Art Study and teaching
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Education
Arts, German 20th century.
Architecture Germany History 20th century.
Art Étude et enseignement Allemagne 20e siècle.
Écoles des beaux-arts Aspect social Allemagne.
Germany

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, 1960- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246497
Call No.: BIB 176090
Status: Available