Haunted Bauhaus : occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics / Elizabeth Otto.

Main entry:

Otto, Elizabeth, 1970- author.

Title & Author:

Haunted Bauhaus : occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics / Elizabeth Otto.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xiii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-272) and index.
Introduction: Bauhaus utopias -- Bauhaus spirits -- New visions of the artist: the artist-engineer and shadow masculinity -- Bauhaus femininities in transformation -- Queer Bauhaus -- Red Bauhaus, Brown Bauhaus.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The Bauhaus (1919-1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In 'Haunted Bauhaus', art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. With 'Haunted Bauhaus', Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures. This is a fresh, wild ride through the Bauhaus you thought you knew.

ISBN:

0262043297 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780262043298 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Bauhaus Faculty Psychology.
Bauhaus Students Psychology.
Bauhaus Corps enseignant Psychologie.
Bauhaus Étudiants Psychologie.
Bauhaus.
Bauhaus Berlin
Bauhaus Dessau 1925-1932
Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994
Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar
Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Bauhaus History.
Bauhaus Social aspects.
Lifestyles Germany History 20th century.
Style de vie Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Art and Design.
Lifestyles.
Modularity (Psychology)
Students Psychology.
Feminismus
Lebensstil
Okkultismus
Politik
Sexuelle Orientierung
Transsexualität
Feminism Germany History 20th century.
Sexual orientation Germany History 20th century.
Occultism Germany History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Germany History 20th century.
Germany.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306860
Call No.: BIB 252400
Status: Available

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