Bauhaus

Whitford, Frank

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An accessible history of the Bauhaus, tracing the ideas behind its conception and its highly influential teaching methods.

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Publish Date: 12/03/2020

Description

The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the school left an indelible mark on design as well as the practice of art education throughout the world.

Placing the Bauhaus into its socio-historic context, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind the school’s conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers, who included artists as eminent as Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, and the daily lives of the students. This remains the most accessible and highly illustrated introduction to perhaps the most significant design movement of the last hundred years.

Additional information

Weight 416 g
Dimensions 210 × 156 × 14 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

215

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

709.430904 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K