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New Bauhaus Chicago : experiment, photography / edited by Kristina Lowis for the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung Berlin ; translation, Sonja Knecht, Michael Wetzel.
Title & Author:

New Bauhaus Chicago : experiment, photography / edited by Kristina Lowis for the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung Berlin ; translation, Sonja Knecht, Michael Wetzel.

Publication:

[Berlin, Germany] : Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung ; Munich, Germany : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, [2017]
Berlin, Germany : medialis Offsetdruck GmbH.
©2017

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published on occasion of the exhibition at Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany from 15 November 2017 to 5 March 2018.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204).
Introduction / Kristina Lowis and Sibylle Hoiman -- Element, Experiment, System, Process: Photography at the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design / Kristina Lowis -- The Photography Program at the Institute of Design / John Grimes -- Moholy-Nagy's Legacy: the Self-Presentation of the "American School of Design" in Its School Brochures / Astrid Bähr -- The Institute of Design: Balancing Education, Commerce, and Artistic Express / Stephen Daiter -- The Bauhaus and the German Legacy of Its Heir in Chicago: the New Bauhaus Collection at Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv in the Context of Collection Strategy and Historiography / Sibylle Hoiman -- From the Institute of Design to the Art Institute of Chicago: Photography, Photography, the School and the Museum / Elizabeth Siegel -- New Pictures from Chicago / Kristina Lowis.
Text in English, with selections translated from the German.
Summary:

"This lavishly illustrated volume looks from both sides of the Atlantic at 80 years of photography from Chicago. At the New Bauhaus and what later became the Institute of Design, teachers like László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes and later Arthur Siegel, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind taught an uninhibited approach to the medium which influenced generations of photographers." --publisher's description.

ISBN:

9783777429373 (paperback)
3777429376 (paperback)

Subject:

New Bauhaus (Chicago, Ill.) Exhibitions.
Bauhaus Exhibitions.
Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) Exhibitions.
Chicago School of Design Exhibitions.
Illinois Institute of Technology Exhibitions.
Institute of Design.
Bauhaus
Chicago School of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology
Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.)
New Bauhaus (Chicago, Ill.)
Photography History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography United States 20th century Exhibitions.
Photographie Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle Expositions.
Photography
Photography, Artistic
United States
1937-2017

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
essays.
photobooks.
Photobooks
Essays
History
Catalogues d'exposition.
Essais.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Lowis, Kristina, editor, contributor.
Hoiman, Sibylle, 1970- contributor.
Grimes, John, 1945- contributor.
Bähr, Astrid, contributor.
Daiter, Stephen, contributor.
Siegel, Elizabeth, 1969- contributor.
Knecht, Sonja, translator.
Wetzel, Michael (Translator), translator.
Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, issuing body, host institution, organizer, publisher.
Hirmer Verlag, publisher.
Germany Bavaria Munich.
Germany Berlin Berlin.

New Bauhaus Chicago : photography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300632
Call No.: BIB 246830
Status: Available

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