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Author Forgács, Éva.

Title The Bauhaus idea and Bauhaus politics / Éva Forgács ; translated by John Bátki
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press ; New York : Distributed by Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations
Contents The beauty of progress -- Time out of joint -- 'We shall draw grand designs ... ' -- First steps -- Weimar -- Breathing exercises -- Time -- New faces -- If we intend to survive -- The new unity -- Man at the control panel -- The part versus the whole -- Why did Gropius leave? -- Hannes Meyer -- Parallel fates? : Weimar, Dessau and Moscow -- Endgame -- Epilogue : Liberalism's utopia
Summary "In this highly original book. Hungarian art historian Eva Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its extraordinary powers of survival?" "Founded in 1919, with the architect Walter Gropius as its first director, the Bauhaus carried within it the seeds of conflict from the start. The duration of the Bauhaus coincides very nearly with that of the Weimar Republic; the Bauhaus idea - the notion that the artist should be involved in the technological innovations of mechanization and mass production - is a concept that was bound to arouse the most passionate feelings. It is these two strands - personal and political - that Forgacs so cleverly interweaves." "The text has been extensively revised since its original publication in Hungarian, and an entirely new chapter has been added on the Bauhaus's Russian analogue, VkhUTEMAS, the Moscow academy of industrial art."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
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Subject Bauhaus -- History
SUBJECT Bauhaus fast
Bauhaus. ram
Subject ART -- Study & Teaching.
Beeldende kunsten.
Kunsttheorie.
Bauhaus.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585340676
9780585340678
Other Titles Bauhaus. English