Design and visual culture from the Bauhaus to contemporary art : optical deconstructions / Edit Tóth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tóth, Edit, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in art and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bauhaus.

Design--History.

Design.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 193 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.

Contents:

2 Orienting the New Woman: Breucr's Furniture and Complex Gender Expressivity at the Haus am Horn p. 13

3 Optical Improvisations: Jazz, Film and Moholy-Nagy's Light Prop for an Electric Stage p. 40

4 Domestic Interventions: Marianne Brandt's "Mediatized" Objects and Self-Portrait Photographs p. 73

5 "Taking Apart" the Sukiya: The Yamawakis' Postwar Tokyo Homes p. 99

6 Vertigo and Kepes's Light Art in 1950s America p. 136

7 Contemporary Art, Architecture and Media: Recovering Material Space p. 166.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1138480614

9781138480612

OCLC:

1017607164