Research Catalog

Title

Bauhaus conflicts, 1919-2009 : controversies and counterparts / [editor, Philipp Oswalt (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) ; translations, Melissa Thoroson ... et al.].

Publication

Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Oswalt, Philipp
• Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.
• Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

303 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Bauhaus-Streit, 1919-2009. English.

Subject

• Bauhaus > History
• 1900-1999
• Art schools > Germany > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with exhibitions commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus: modell bauhaus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, July 22 - October 4, 2009, and Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 8, 2009 - January 18, 2010." --Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Philipp Oswalt -- Un-German activities : attacks from the right, 1919-1933 / Justus H. Ulbricht -- "Clash of the natural and the mechanical human" : Theo van Doesburg versus Johannes Itten, 1922 / Kai-Uwe Hemken -- The dictate of coldness : critique from the left, 1919-1933 / Michael Müller -- The successor's disinheritance : the conflict between Hannes Meyer and Walter Gropius / Magdalena Droste -- Surfaces for a technically obsolete world : R. Buckminster Fuller, Shelter magazine, and the opposition to the International style / Joachim Krausse -- A failed rebirth : the Bauhaus and Stalinism, 1945-1952 / Simone Hain -- The postwar dispute in West Germany : the renewal of rationalism / Thilo Hilpert -- Honoring the dead father? : the situationists as heirs to the Bauhaus / Jörn Etzold -- The Bauhaus and Ulm / Otl Aicher -- The Bauhaus as a Cold War weapon : an American-German joint venture / Paul Betts -- State-supporting boredom : the distance of the 1968 student movement / Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm -- State doctrine or criticism of the regime : Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1963-1990 / Wolfgang Thöner -- Lemon tarts on a Barcelona chair : Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus to our house / Ullrich Schwarz -- "This chair is a work of art" : the zigzag course of Bauhaus furniture on the path to fame / Gerda Breuer -- Just a façade? : the conflict over the reconstruction of the masters' houses / Walter Prigge.

ISBN

• 9783775724883 (pbk. : Eng. ed.)
• 3775724885 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 419820986
• SCSB-10074175

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library