Bauhaus

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Author: Frank Whitford


The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the school left an indelible mark on design as well as the practice of art education throughout the world. Placing the Bauhaus into its socio-historic context, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind the school’s conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers, who included artists as eminent as Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, and the daily lives of the students. This remains the most accessible and highly illustrated introduction to perhaps the most significant design movement of the last hundred years.

 

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Author: Frank Whitford
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Language: English
Year of issue: 2020
Size: 210 × 149
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 216

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Bauhaus: A Modernist Legacy places the legendary German art and design school founded in 1919 into its social and historical context. Though shuttered by the Nazis in 1933 after just fourteen years, the Bauhaus left an indelible mark on global design, architecture, and art education.

Frank Whitford traces the ideas and teaching methods that defined the school’s pioneering curriculum. He examines the daily lives of students and the practices of master teachers—Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and others—revealing how their experiments in form, color, and materials revolutionized modern aesthetics.

Profusely illustrated with period photographs, student works, and archival documents, this volume remains the most approachable and visually engaging introduction to arguably the most significant design movement of the past century.

Author Frank Whitford
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Language English
Year of Issue 2020
Size 210 × 149 mm
Binding & Pages paperback; 216 pages

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Category: Design, architecture
Warranty: 2 years
Weight: 0.7 kg
Categories: art, photography, design, architecture
Products: books
Genre: art, design
Age: adults
Exhibition: Lucia Moholy: Exposures
Language: English

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