The Bauhaus idea and Bauhaus politics / Éva Forgács ; translated by John Bátki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forgács, Éva.

Standardized Title:

Bauhaus. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bauhaus--History.

Bauhaus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 1995.

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.

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-003-72230-X

963-386-496-8

1-85866-012-2

9780585340676

9781003722304

OCLC:

1293256549