Main entry:

Maciuika, John V.

Title & Author:

Before the Bauhaus : architecture, politics and the German state, 1890-1919 / John V. Maciuika.

Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Description:

xvi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the politics of design reform in the German Kaiserreich -- 1. Design reform in Germany's central and southern states, 1890-1914 -- 2. The Prussian commerce ministry and the lessons of the British arts and crafts movement -- 3. Prussian applied-arts reforms : culture, class, and the modern economy -- 4. The convergence of state and private reform impulses in the Deutscher Werkbund -- 5. Hermann Muthesius : architectural practice between government service and Werkbund activism -- 6. Cultural fault lines in the Wilhelmine garden city movement -- 7. Werkbundpolitik and Weltpolitik : the German state's interest in global commerce and "good design," 1912-1914 -- App. A. Statistical chart of Prussian applied-arts schools -- App. B. Werkbund theses/counter-theses.

Summary:

"Before the Bauhaus reevaluates the political, architectural, and artistic cultures of pre-World War I Germany. Every bit as contradictory and conflict-ridden as the German Second Reich itself, the world of architects, craftsmen, and applied-arts "artists" was in no way immune to the expansionist, imperialist, and capitalist struggles that transformed Germany in the quarter-century leading up to the First World War. In this study, John V. Maciuika brings together architectural and design history, political history, social history, and cultural geography. He substantially revises our understanding of the roots of the Bauhaus and, by extension, the historical roots of twentieth-century German architecture and design. At the same time, his book also sheds new light on hotly contested debates pertaining to the history of pre - World War I Germany, namely, questions involving the "modernity" or "anti-modernity" of the German Second Empire, the character and effectiveness of the government administration, and the role played by the nation's most important architects, members of the rising bourgeois class, in challenging the traditional aristocracy at the top of the new German economic and social order."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0521790042 (hardback)
9780521790048 (hardback)

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Architecture Germany History 20th century.
Architecture Germany 19th century.
Architecture and state Germany History.
Architecture Allemagne 19e siècle.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Allemagne Histoire.
Architecture
Architecture and state
Arquitetura moderna Século 20 Alemanha.
Arquitetura moderna Século 19 Alemanha.
Arquitetura (aspectos políticos) Alemanha.
Germany

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240525
Call No.: NA1068 .M33 2005
Status: Available