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Bauhaus bodies: gender, sexuality and body culture in modernism's legendary art school

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A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. In fourteen essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender.

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Bauhaus at the newsstand: Die Neue Linie 1929-1943

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Between 1929 and 1943, an outstanding new lifestyle magazine called Die Neue Linie (“The New Line”) was published by Beyer Press in Leipzig. No other publication in this period was so consistent in bringing avant-garde typographic ideas to a mass audience, as leading graphic designers from the Bauhaus, including László Moholy-Nagy, Umbo and Herbert Bayer, steered the look of the magazine, whose contents combined fashion, literature, graphic design and art. Unembellished fonts, dynamic diagonals and dramatic use of photomontage were key to the journal's striking appearance. Its authors included Walter Gropius, Aldous Huxley, Gottfried Benn and Thomas Mann. The Bauhaus at the Newsstand illustrates the turbulent times in which the magazine appeared, reproducing spreads, statements, articles, a visual checklist of every issue and analyses of the magazine's delicate balancing act between modernism and conformity.

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Image factories, infographics 1920-1945: Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath et al.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, an unprecedented volume of information began circulating in the mass media, calling for the development of new visualization tactics to organize it all. The abundance of news and information required new forms of representation that would allow readers to glean a quick understanding of complex circumstances at a glance; the infographic was born. "Image Factories" is dedicated to the pioneering infographics of Austrian physician and illustrator Fritz Kahn (1888–1968) and German philosopher Otto Neurath (1882–1945), who both worked with graphic designers to realize their groundbreaking information visualizations. Presenting historical material and imagery designed between 1920 and 1945 alongside contemporary infographics, with a series of essays by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs, Patrick Rössler, Bernd Stiegler, Vilém Flusser and Otto Neurath, Image Factories offers a fascinating account of the early development of the infographic.

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Bauhaus gals

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À travers plus de 400 photographies prises entre 1919 et 1933, 'Bauhausmädels' forme une galerie de 87 portraits en images de ces femmes artistes qui, appartenant à l’école d’art la plus progressive du XXe siècle, s’en sont écartées pour changer le milieu de l’art, de l’architecture, du design et même de la politique. Des biographies détaillées mettent en lumière le combat individuel, la détermination face à l’adversité et l’incroyable réussite de chaque artiste. Cet album de famille nous fait alors découvrir un groupe d’avant-gardistes unique, dont l’héritage a ouvert la voie aux femmes artistes des générations suivantes.