Title & Author:

Bauhaus : a conceptual model / editor, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/Museum für Gestaltung, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and Klassik Stiftung Weimar ; in cooperation with, Museum of Modern Art, New York ; [translations, Benjamin Carter and others].

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2009.

Description:

376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 x 30 cm

Notes:
"Occasion: Ninetieth anniversary of the Bauhaus; sponsor: Kulturstiftung des Bundes."
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, July 22-Oct. 4, 2009.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus. The exhibition was held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, July 22-Oct. 4, 2009.
Foreword by Annemarie Jaeggi, Philipp Oswalt and Hellmut Seemann. Texts by Annemarie Jaeggi et al.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-372) and index.
Lender acknowledgments -- Foreword / Annemarie Jaeggi, Philipp Oswalt, and Helmut Seemann -- A word of greeting : from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Greetings : from the sponsors -- Bauhaus : a conceptual model / Annemarie Jaeggi -- Expression of original questions of being : the sculptor Gerhard Marcks / Jürgen Fitschen -- An architectonics of light : Lyonel Feininger's viaduct / Charles Werner Haxthausen -- Catalogue. 1919 ; 1920 ; 1921 ; 1923 ; 1924 ; 1925 ; 1926 ; 1927 ; 1928 ; 1929 ; 1930 ; 1931 ; 1932 ; 1933 -- Essays. The Bauhaus on the market : on the difficult relationship between the Bauhaus and consumer culture / Regina Bittner ; Escape into the public sphere : the exhibition as an instrument of self-presentation at the Bauhaus / Patrick Rössler -- Selective appropriation : remarks on the reception of Bauhaus pedagogy in Germany / Rainer K. Wick ; Teaching at Black Mountain College and the New Bauhaus : the seperation of art and design / Gabriele Diana Grawe ; The Bauhaus : internationalization and globalization / Klaus von Beyme ; "Timeless gothic" instead of "Dentist-style with housing cubes" : The National Socialist opposition to the Bauhaus / Justus H. Ulbricht ; Vice versa : art or the people? / Ulrike Bestgen and Werner Möller ; The Bauhaus today / Philipp Oswalt.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"One of Walter Gropius' guiding principles in founding the Bauhaus was that "design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society." As a result of this ethos, Bauhaus artists and designers experimented freely with everything from painting to furniture, producing countless masterpieces in many genres. This comprehensive volume takes stock of the Bauhaus' output by highlighting 68 projects, with a particular focus on neglected aspects of the school's legacy. A different author is assigned to respond to each work, creating an inventory of celebrated and lesser-known works that helps the reader to tangibly cohere the Bauhaus' daunting achievements. Marking the ninetieth anniversary of the school's founding, this comprehensive volume, with nearly 400 color illustrations, is made possible through the collaborative efforts of three institutions: the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin, Dessau's Stiftung Bauhaus and the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar (Klassik Stiftung). Also featured are essays by the Director of the Bauhaus-Museum in Weimar, Michael Siebenbrodt, and the artist and writer, Jeff Wall."--Jacket
"The Bauhaus--founded in Weimar in 1919, located in Dessau beginning in 1925, and ultimately shut down in 1933 shortly after relocating in Berlin--continues to be the most effective and successful export article of twentieth-century German culture. Even more than seventy years after it was closed, this interdisciplinary school for art, architecture, design, and theater has not lost any of its currentness. On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, this profusely illustrated, comprehensive publication with over three hundred illustrations reexamines and reevaluates the art school's history and influence. In this collaborative project by the three leading institutes at the former sites of the Bauhaus's activities--the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Bauhaus-Museum of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar--the historic Bauhaus and the trail of its reception are closely examined and analyzed based on sixty-eight selected highlights, including the hitherto neglected aspects of the Bauhaus during the period of National Socialism as well as its international propagation and commercialization."--English trade ed. book jacket

Resources:
Related Electronic Resource: Publisher's web page for this work (with link at bottom for alternating between German and English home page)

ISBN:

9783775724159 (English)
377572415X (English)
9783775724142 (German)
3775724141 (German)

Subject:

Bauhaus Exhibitions.
Bauhaus
Art, German 20th century Exhibitions.
Design Germany History 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Germany History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art allemand 20e siècle Expositions.
Design Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, German
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Design
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Germany 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Germany Exhibitions.
Germany
1919-1933

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Jaeggi, Annemarie
Oswalt, Philipp
Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.
Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 264249
Call No.: BIB 195594
Status: Available