Bauhaus

by Fiedler, Jeannine; Fieldler, Jeannine; Feierabend, Peter; Ackermann, Ute

• ISBN13: 9783829025935
• ISBN10: 3829025939
• Edition: ENGLISH ED
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Konemann

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(6)
THEMES
Foundations and Consequences
Bauhaus: History	14	(8)
Bauhaus: Bauhaus Philosophy -- Cultural Critique and Social Utopia	22	(4)
The Bauhaus and the Weimar Republic -- Struggles for Political and Cultural Hegemony	26	(8)
The Bauhaus and National Socialism -- a Dark Chapter of Modernism	34	(8)
The Bauhaus in the German Democratic Republic -- between Formalism and Pragmatism	42	(8)
Bauhaus in the Federal Republic of Germany -- A Privileged Legacy from Weimar	50	(6)
The State Building College in Weimar -- a ``Gropius Bauhaus without Gropius?''	56	(6)
Black Mountain College, NC	62	(4)
New Bauhaus and School of Design, Chicago	66	(8)
The Institute of Design, Ulm	74	(6)
Daily Life
The Bauhaus and the World of Technology -- Work on Industrial Culture?	80	(8)
Body Concepts of the Modernists at the Bauhaus	88	(8)
Women at the Bauhaus -- a Myth of Emancipation	96	(12)
The Bauhaus -- an Intimate Portrait	108	(12)
Mazdaznan at the Bauhaus -- the Artist as Savior	120	(6)
Bauhaus Parties -- Histrionics between Eccentric Dancing and Animal Drama	126	(14)
Non--stop Music -- a Brief Musical History of the Bauhaus	140	(12)
The Self--portrait -- Photography as the Trigger of Reflected Perception	152	(8)
Free Painting at the Bauhaus	160	(12)
``Actually they're all crazy at the Bauhaus'' -- an Anthology of Quotations	172	(8)
WORK
Personalities
The Three Bauhaus Directors	180	(8)
A Review of Personal Life and Work -- Walter Gropius, the Architect and Founder of the Bauhaus	188	(16)
The Bauhaus on the Road to Production Cooperative -- the Director Hannes Meyer	204	(12)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Dessau, Berlin, Chicago	216	(16)
Johannes Itten	232	(12)
The ``Analyses of Old Masters'' or the Modernity of Tradition	242	(2)
Paul Klee	244	(12)
Playfully to the Essentials	252	(4)
Wassily Kandinsky	256	(12)
The Paradoxical Fame of a Bauhaus Master -- a Prince among Painters as an Artist of Theory	266	(2)
Lyonel Feininger	268	(12)
Feininger's Fugues -- the Domestic Music of the Masters as an Expression of Conservative Sentiments?	278	(2)
Oskar Schlemmer	280	(12)
Oskar Schlemmer's Anthropological Design	288	(4)
Laszlo Moholy--Nagy	292	(16)
Synthesis and Total Artwork	302	(2)
Moholy's Art of Film or Why the Bauhaus Stayed Away from the Cinema	304	(4)
Josef Albers	308	(12)
Perceptive Painting instead of Op--Art	318	(2)
Marcel Breuer	320	(12)
``openwork outlines sit lightly in the room'' -- the Tubular Steel Furniture of Marcel Breuer	328	(4)
Herbert Bayer	332	(14)
Universal Design for the National Socialist Economy and State	342	(4)
Gunta Stolzl	346	(14)
The Token Woman Master	354	(6)
Preparatory Teaching
The Preliminary Course under Johannes Itten -- Human Education	360	(8)
The Preliminary Course under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Sensory Competence	368	(6)
The Preliminary Course under Josef Albers -- Creativity School	374	(8)
Teaching by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee	382	(10)
Teaching Color at the Bauhaus	392	(10)
Workshops
The Joinery and Fitting Workshop	402	(14)
Bauhaus Licenses and Business	414	(2)
Wood Carving and Stone Sculpture -- the Plastic Workshop	416	(10)
The Bauhaus and the Ideas of the Cathedral Guilds	422	(2)
``Plastic Art...what, at the Bauhaus!?!?'' On Sculpture at the Bauhaus	424	(2)
The Metal Workshop	426	(12)
The Law of Line Production	436	(2)
The Ceramics Workshop	438	(14)
Japan and the Bauhaus Pottery	450	(2)
The Wall Painting Workshop	452	(14)
The Noble Simplicity of the Roll -- the Bauhaus Wallpapers	462	(4)
The Weaving Workshop	466	(14)
The Role of Arts and Crafts at the Bauhaus	478	(2)
The Weimar Art Print Workshop	480	(8)
Graphic Editions	486	(2)
The Printing and Advertising Workshop	488	(18)
Exhibition Design -- a Conglomeration of Techniques?	498	(4)
From reserved gracefulness to the weariness of the rational: propaganda the day before yesterday, commercial publicity yesterday, advertising today, tomorrow -- communication	502	(2)
Red Bar, Right Angle -- a Synonym for the Bauhaus?	504	(2)
Photography at the Bauhaus	506	(26)
Walter Peterhans -- toward a subjective photography	530	(2)
The Bauhaus Theater Group	532	(20)
Bauhaus Masks -- a loose liaison of dancers and artists	548	(2)
The Bauhaus Theater after the Bauhaus Theater	550	(2)
From the Bauhaus to Housebuilding -- Architecture and the Teaching of Architecture at the Bauhaus	552	(28)
From the housing estate house to urban building -- the architect, town builder and pedagog Ludwig Hilberseimer	570	(4)
The Brave New World -- a house building review. A walk through an impossible Bauhaus city	574	(6)
THEORY
The Bauhaus as Madeleine -- against Retrospective Prophecies	580	(4)
Strange Forces -- Three Possible Retrospective Takes on a Spatialized Modernism	584	(8)
Chalk and Computers -- Principles of Order in Dynamic Image-making	592	(10)
DOCUMENTATION
Bauhaus Chronology	602	(6)
Selective Bibliography	608	(6)
Exhibitions at the Bauhaus	614	(2)
Glossary	616	(8)
Merchandising Appendix	624	(10)
The Authors	634	(2)
Index	636	(3)
Picture Acknowledgments and Thanks	639