The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in
Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933,
brought together artists, architects and
designers--among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert
Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius,
Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo
Moholy-Nagy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta
Stolzl--in an extraordinary conversation on the nature
of art in the industrial age. Aiming to rethink the form
of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a
dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that
have profoundly shaped the world today. ''Bauhaus
1[zasłonięte]919-19: Workshops for Modernity,'' published to
accompany a major multimedia exhibition, is The Museum
of Modern Art's first comprehensive treatment of the
subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938, and
offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth
century's most influential experiment in artistic
education. Organized in collaboration with the three
major Bauhaus collections in Germany (the Bauhaus-Archiv
Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Klassic
Stiftung Weimar), ''Bauhaus 1[zasłonięte]919-19'' examines the
extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school's products,
including industrial design, furniture, architecture,
graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater and
costume design, painting and sculpture. Many of the
objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if
ever been seen or published outside Germany. Featuring
approximately 400 color plates, richly complemented by
documentary images, ''Bauhaus 1[zasłonięte]919-19'' includes two
overarching essays by the exhibition's curators, Barry
Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, that present new
perspectives on the Bauhaus. Shorter essays by more than
20 leading scholars apply contemporary viewpoints to 30
key Bauhaus objects, and an illustrated narrative
chronology provides a dynamic glimpse of the Bauhaus'
lived history. |
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