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Bauhaus Conflicts, 1919-2009: Controversies and Counterparts

Door Philipp Oswalt

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#380612-UC3
Titel
Bauhaus Conflicts, 1919-2009: Controversies and Counterparts
Auteur
Oswalt, Philipp
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
3775724540
ISBN13
9783775724548
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some (full page) photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Only an idea has the power to spread so far." Ludwig Mies van der Rohe The Bauhaus, one of the icons of modernism, was controversial from the start--not only because of internal strife, but also due to critique or enmities from the outside. And the controversy did not end with the closure of the Bauhaus itself. Yet nothing else revealed Bauhaus ideas and ideology as well as these confrontations did. Through them, the basic issues of the modernist program became clear. It became obvious that there was no such thing as one kind of modernism, just as there was no ONE Bauhaus; instead, there were different, contradictory, and even oppositional movements and positions: the Bauhauses. Few cultural movements have been as politically instrumentalized as the Bauhaus has. These controversies re... (Lees verder)flect the relationship between politics and culture in the twentieth century, and hence, the history of the construction of German identity.
Pagina's
311
Conditie
Goed — Top corner front cover slightly folded.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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