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Xanti Schawinsky : play, life, illusion : a retrospective in texts, letters and images / edited by Daniel Schawinsky and Torsten Blume.
Fine Arts Library N7153.S24 A4 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Xanti Schawinsky (Hirmer)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schawinsky, Xanti, 1904-1979--Exhibitions.
- Schawinsky, Xanti.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- polychrome
- illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Munich : Hirmer, [2024]
- Summary:
- ""Play Life Illusion" refers to the title of a performance that Xanti Schawinsky (1904-1979) developed in 1936 with students at Black Mountain College. The artist, who worked at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, emigrated via Italy to the United States in the 1930s. This volume assembles autobiographical texts and letters reflecting on Schawinsky's extraordinary career as a multimedia artist and designer"-- From page [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Daniel Schawinsky, Bettina Steinbrügge, Christina Végh
- Xanti Schawinsky in his texts / Torsten Blume
- Basel, Zurich 1904-1921 childhood and youth
- 1921-1924 Coming to the Bauhaus
- Weimar 1924-1925 Becoming a Bauhäusler
- Dessau 1925-1929 Being a Bauhäusler
- Berlin, Magdeburg, Berlin 1929-1933 Creating and hoping
- 1933 Milan, Italy Staying modern in a fascist country
- Black Mountain, North Carolina 1936-1938 Experimental teaching
- New York, USA 1938-1948 In the Gropius Team
- New York, Oggebbio 1948-1960s Dancing and painting pictures
- Basel, New York, Europe 1962-1979 Staging spaces
- Notes:
- On the occasion of the exhibitions held at the Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, July 12, 2024 - January 5, 2025; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 15 - June 15, 2025.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236).
- Local Notes:
- On the occasion of the exhibitions held at the Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, July 12, 2024 - January 5, 2025; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 15 - June 15, 2025.
- Other Format:
- German editon
- ISBN:
- 9783777444420
- 3777444421
- OCLC:
- 1463809552
- Publisher Number:
- 9783777444420
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