Limit this search to....

Bauhaus
Contributor(s): Droste, Magdalena (Author), Gössel, Peter (Editor)
ISBN: 3836560143     ISBN-13: 9783836560146
Publisher: Taschen
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2015
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
- Art | History - General
- Design | Furniture
Dewey: 709.430
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.4" W x 10.4" (1.34 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and installation.

As much an intense personal community as a publicly minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta St lzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and their interest in a "total" work of art across different practices and media.

This book celebrates the adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a trailblazer in the development of modernism, and as a paradigm of art education, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful creations.

About the series

Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features:

an introduction to the life and work of the architect

the major works in chronological order

information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions

a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings

approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)


Contributor Bio(s): Gossel, Peter: - Peter Gössel dirige une agence de design pour les musées et les expositions. Il a publié pour TASCHEN des monographies consacrées à Julius Shulman, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner et Richard Neutra, ainsi que plusieurs titres de la Petite Collection architecture.Droste, Magdalena: - Magdalena Droste a étudié l'histoire de l'art et la littérature à Aix-la-Chapelle et Marbourg. À partir de 1980, elle travaille aux archives du Bauhaus à Berlin, puis comme professeur d'histoire de l'art à la BTU Cottbus. Elle a contribué à de nombreuses expositions et publications sur des thèmes et des artistes liés au Bauhaus.