Main entry:

Bauhaus-Streit, 1919-2009. English.

Title & Author:

Bauhaus conflicts, 1919-2009 : controversies and counterparts / [editor, Philipp Oswalt (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) ; translations, Melissa Thoroson and others].

Publication:

Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, ©2009.

Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with exhibitions commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus: modell bauhaus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, July 22 - October 4, 2009, and Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 8, 2009 - January 18, 2010"--Colophon
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with exhibitions commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus: modell bauhaus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, July 22 - October 4, 2009, and Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 8, 2009 - January 18, 2010."--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Philipp Oswalt -- Un-German activities : attacks from the right, 1919-1933 / Justus H. Ulbricht -- "Clash of the natural and the mechanical human" : Theo van Doesburg versus Johannes Itten, 1922 / Kai-Uwe Hemken -- The dictate of coldness : critique from the left, 1919-1933 / Michael Müller -- The successor's disinheritance : the conflict between Hannes Meyer and Walter Gropius / Magdalena Droste -- Surfaces for a technically obsolete world : R. Buckminster Fuller, Shelter magazine, and the opposition to the International style / Joachim Krausse -- A failed rebirth : the Bauhaus and Stalinism, 1945-1952 / Simone Hain -- The postwar dispute in West Germany : the renewal of rationalism / Thilo Hilpert -- Honoring the dead father? : the situationists as heirs to the Bauhaus / Jörn Etzold -- The Bauhaus and Ulm / Otl Aicher -- The Bauhaus as a Cold War weapon : an American-German joint venture / Paul Betts -- State-supporting boredom : the distance of the 1968 student movement / Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm -- State doctrine or criticism of the regime : Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1963-1990 / Wolfgang Thöner -- Lemon tarts on a Barcelona chair : Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus to our house / Ullrich Schwarz -- "This chair is a work of art" : the zigzag course of Bauhaus furniture on the path to fame / Gerda Breuer -- Just a façade? : the conflict over the reconstruction of the masters' houses / Walter Prigge.

ISBN:

9783775724883 (pbk. ; Eng. ed.)
3775724885 (pbk.)
9783775724548
3775724540

Subject:

Bauhaus History.
Bauhaus.
Bauhaus Influence.
Art schools Germany History 20th century.
Écoles des Beaux-Arts Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Art schools.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Germany.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Oswalt, Philipp.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265984
Call No.: BIB 197506
Status: Available