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Bauhaus culture : from Weimar to the Cold War / Kathleen James-Chakraborty, editor.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-146745

Description

xix, 246 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Influence.
Art schools Social aspects
Study and teaching History 20th century.

Originator

James, Kathleen, 1960-

Contents

Wilhelmine precedents for the Bauhaus : Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian state, and the German Werkbund / John V. Maciuika -- Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius : between avoidance and imitation / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- From metaphysics to material culture : painting and photography at the Bauhaus / Rose Carol Washton Long -- Architecture, building, and the Bauhaus / Wallis Miller -- Bauhaus theater of human dolls / Juliet Koss -- Utopia for sale : the Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture / Frederic J. Schwartz -- Bauhaus architecture in the Third Reich / Winfried Nerdinger -- From isolationism to internationalism : American acceptance of the Bauhaus / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- The Bauhaus in Cold War Germany / Greg Castillo.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press

Description

xix, 246 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.

ISBN

0816646872 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816646876 (hc : alk. paper)
0816646880 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816646883 (pb : alk. paper)

Call Number

Stacks N332.G33 B4263 2006

Other People and Orgs

Bauhaus.
Bauhaus

Places

Germany.
Art

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