In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's
Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity.
With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a
pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which
they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and
sculpture to ceramics. This best-selling reference work is made in
collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in
Berlin, the world's largest collection on the history of the
Bauhaus. Some 575 illustrations including architectural plans,
studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the
realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of
this idealistic creative community through its three successive
locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of
group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive
architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne
Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and
geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total" work of
art. This is a defining account of Bauhaus' energy and rigor, not
only as a trailblazing movement in Modernism but also as a paradigm
of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas
led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. The handy
edition features artists Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter
Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly
Reich, and many more. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis -
Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN
universe!
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