Main entry:

Schawinsky, Xanti, 1904-1979, artist.

Title & Author:

Xanti Schawinsky / editors, Raphael Gygax, Heike Munder ; translation from German, Gerrit Jackson ; translation from English, Christian Quatmann.

Publication:

Zurich : Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst : JRP Ringier, [2015]
©2015

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Exhibition catalog.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, February 21 - May 17, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Bauhaus years / Torsten Blume -- Bauhaus theater at Black Mountain College / Eva Díaz -- New York faces / Juliet Koss -- Forward and backward: process-based painting / Raphael Gygax.
Parallel texts in English and German.

Summary:

The work of the late Swiss artist "Xanti" (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904-1979) was until recently almost inaccessible. A long legal dispute and the fact that Schawinsky's work as a teacher was so integral to his artistic praxis (rather than only presenting his work in galleries and exhibitions), explain why much of his oeuvre is to be found in just one location today. In his lifetime, Schawinsky was mainly known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. In the 1930s, while teaching at Black Mountain College, a legendary art college in North Carolina that provided refuge for many European emigrants during the Nazi era, Schawinsky, building on his Bauhaus work, developed his dramatic theory known as "Spectodrama." Involving multimedia productions that examine elementary phenomena such as space, motion, light, sound, or color from scientific, technical, and performance-based perspectives, it represents an early form of the "happening," which would later be made famous by another affiliate of the same institution, John Cage

ISBN:

9783037643976 (pbk.)
3037643978 (pbk.)

Subject:

Schawinsky, Xanti, 1904-1979 Exhibitions.
Schawinsky, Xanti, 1904-1979
Art, Swiss 20th century Exhibitions.
Art suisse 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Swiss

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gygax, Raphael, editor.
Munder, Heike, 1969- editor.
Jackson, Gerrit, translator.
Quatmann, Christian, translator.
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290286
Call No.: BIB 233259
Status: Available