Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of
architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the
Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its
extraordinary powers of survival? Founded in 1919, with the
architect Walter Gropius as its first director, the Bauhaus carried
within it the seeds of conflict from the start. The duration of the
Bauhaus coincides very nearly with that of the Weimar Republic; the
Bauhaus idea - the notion that the artist should be involved in the
technological innovations of mechanization and mass production - is
a concept that was bound to arouse the most passionate feelings. It
is these two strands - personal and political - that Forgacs so
cleverly interweaves. The text has been extensively revised since
its original publication in Hungarian, and an entirely new chapter
has been added on the Bauhaus's Russian analogue, VkhUTEMAS, the
Moscow academy of industrial art.
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