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Big plans! : on applied Modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919-1933 / edited for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation by Claudia Perren, Torsten Blume, and Alexia Pooth.
Fine Arts Library NA682.M63 B55 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edition Bauhaus ; Bd. 50.
- Kerber culture
- Edition Bauhaus
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Germany--Saxony-Anhalt.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Modernism (Art)--Germany--Saxony-Anhalt.
- Modernism (Art).
- Modern movement (Architecture)--History.
- Bauhaus.
- Art, German--20th century.
- Art, German.
- History.
- Germany--Saxony-Anhalt.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
- Other Title:
- On applied Modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919-1933
- Big plans! : modern figures, visionaries, and inventors
- Modern figures, visionaries, and inventors
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Kerber Verlag, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German into English by Amy Klement and Steven Lindberg.
- Summary:
- Ninety years after the Bauhaus first opened its doors in Dessau, "Big Plans! Modern Types, Dreamers, and Inventors" is the first publication to prove that the Bauhaus was not the only forum for the international avant-garde, but part of a large, Modernist utopia. A futurist industrial region grew up in central Germany from 1919 to 1933; it was closely linked to visionary and idealized plans for a new image of humanity, realized in everything from architecture, education, and advertising to the notion of space exploration. The exhibition includes correspondence sent from the Bauhaus to Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Leuna, Merseburg, Wolfen, and Elbingerorde. This intriguing companion volume opens up a view into a highly active field of dynamic, exploratory ideas coming from participants such as Walter Gropius, Xanti Schawinsky, Bruno Taut, and Wilhelm Deffke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 212-213) and index.
- "The joint project 'Big Plans! Applied Modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919-1933' and the exhibition 'Big plans! Modern figures, visionaries, and inventors,' were both developed by Torsten Blume and curated in cooperation with Janek Müller."--Page 28.
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Big plans! Modern figures, visionaries, and inventors: applied Modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919-1933' May 4-2016 to January 6, 2017, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation"--Colophon.
- ISBN:
- 9783735601858
- 3735601855
- OCLC:
- 944160038
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