The Bauhaus idea and Bauhaus politics /

• Main Author: Forg�acs, �Eva
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Budapest ; New York : New York : Central European University Press ; Distributed by Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Subjects: Gropius, Walter, > 1883-1969 > Et le Bauhaus.; Bauhaus > History.; Bauhaus > Histoire.; Bauhaus.; ART > Study & Teaching.; Beeldende kunsten.; Kunsttheorie.; Electronic books.; History.

"In this highly original book. Hungarian art historian Eva 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?" "Founde...

Table of Contents:

• The beauty of progress
• Time out of joint
• 'We shall draw grand designs ... '
• First steps
• Weimar
• Breathing exercises
• Time
• New faces
• If we intend to survive
• The new unity
• Man at the control panel
• The part versus the whole
• Why did Gropius leave?
• Hannes Meyer
• Parallel fates? : Weimar, Dessau and Moscow
• Endgame
• Epilogue : Liberalism's utopia.