From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology, this catalogue explores the Bauhauss utopian vision to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" presents the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" reproduces a rich array of painting, sculpture, design, ...
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From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology, this catalogue explores the Bauhauss utopian vision to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" presents the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" reproduces a rich array of painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation. Exemplar works from such Bauhaus Masters as Josef and Anni Albers, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Hannes Meyer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Gunta Stolzl, are illustrated alongside works by lesser-known Bauhaus artists and students.
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Like New. Condition: Fine; Dust Jacket Condition: Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. The book is in Fine condition, an unread, as new copy. Photos upon request.
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Fine in Pictorial Boards jacket. XL. Exhibition catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Bauhaus: Art as Life, curated by Catherine Ince and Lydia Yee, 3 May-12 August 2012 at the publisher's gallery. Book is in excellent condition in every respect. As-new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean, as-new and free of marking of any kind. 287 pages with a great number of color and b&w illustrations, photos and prints. Chapters/section headings include New beginnings, A return to the crafts, Salute to the square, Instruments of communication, Young people come to the bauhaus! , Our play our party, our work, State, space architecture, Designing the modern world, Then new vision, The final months of the bauhaus. With texts from Walter Gropius, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Michael Siebenbrodt, Wassily Kandinsky, Gerhard Marcks, Eva Forgacs, Catherine Ince, Philipp Oswalt, Philip Ursprung, Klaus Weber, Johannes Itten, Nicholas Fox Weber, Oskar Schlemmer, Melissa Trimingham, Torsten Blume, Marcel Breuer, Ernst Kallai, Anja Baumhoff, Laszlo Moholy-nagy, Lydia Yee, Wolfgang Thoner, Lugwig Mies Van Der Rohe.
