Offering the first comprehensive training in the visual arts
grounded in abstraction, the Bauhaus was the site of a dazzling
range of influential experiments in painting, architecture,
photography, industrial design, and even artistic education itself.
Three-quarters of a century later, the "look" of the new remains
indebted to the Bauhaus and its equation of technology with
modernism. Central to discussions of the relationships between art,
industrialization, and politics in the twentieth century, much of
the school's later impact was derived in part from its status as
one of the foremost cultural symbols of Germany's first democracy
and its public reputation as a "cathedral of socialism."
In this book, editor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and seven other
scholars analyze the accomplishments and dispel the myths of the
Bauhaus, placing it firmly in a historical context from before the
formation of the Weimar Republic through Nazi ascendancy and World
War II into the cold war. Together, they investigate its
professors' and students' interactions with mass culture; establish
the complexity of its relationship with Wilhelmine, Nazi, and
postwar German politics; and challenge the claim that its
architects greatly influenced American architecture in the 1930s.
Their most explosive conclusions address the degree to which some
aspects of Bauhaus design continued to flourish during the Third
Reich before becoming one of the cold war's most enduring emblems
of artistic freedom. In doing so, "Bauhaus Culture" calls into
question the degree to which this influential school should
continue to symbolize an uncomplicated relationship between art,
modern technology, and progressive politics.
Contributors: Greg Castillo, Juliet Koss, Rose-Carol Washton Long,
John V. Maciuika, Wallis Miller, Winifried Nerdinger, Frederic J.
Schwartz.
Kathleen James-Chakraborty is associate professor of architecture
at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "German
Architecture for a Mass Audience" and "Erich Mendelsohn and the
Architecture of German Modernism."
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