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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus
Although it flourished for only fifteen years, the Bauhaus school
remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the
20th century. This collection of personal memories from Bauhaus
teachers, students, and friends provides a uniquely intimate
portrayal of the movement and a new perspective on its development,
denouement, and legacy. Introduced through brief biographical
sketches, each entry reflects its subject's distinctive voice and
features rare photographs of their days at work and at play. From
the deeply personal experiences of figures such as Bauhaus founder
Walter Gropius and Josef Albers to reminiscences from the families
of Kandinsky, Klee, and Beckmann, these first-hand accounts bring
the Bauhaus back to life for a new generation of fans.
Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the
twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American
Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An
artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States,
the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the
only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican
narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his
title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as
complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest
Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the
wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project.
In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the
context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David
Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a
melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress,
and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within
Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary
debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.
This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great
Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in
particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment
campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art
movements including Vorticism. This investigation not only
considers the image as a whole, but also assesses tropes and
constructs as objects contained within, both literal and
metaphorical. In this way visual genealogical threads including the
female figure as an ideal and William Hogarth's 'line of beauty'
are explored, and their legacies assessed and followed through into
the twenty-first century. Georgina Williams contributes to debates
surrounding the deliberate and inadvertent dismissal of women's
roles throughout history, through literature and imagery. This book
also considers how absence of a pictorial manifestation of the
female form in visual culture can be as important as her presence.
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