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Bauhaus construct : fashioning identity, discourse and modernism / edited by Jeffrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei.

Title
Bauhaus construct : fashioning identity, discourse and modernism / edited by Jeffrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Saletnik, Jeffrey
  • Schuldenfrei, Robin
Description
ix, 278 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school's history, this book addresses connections between text and object, protagonist and object, collective identity and object and other relationships key to the history of the Bauhaus.
Subject
  • Bauhaus
  • Art, German > 20th century
  • Design > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Germany > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Bauhaus manifesto postwar to postwar: from the street to the wall to the radio to the memoir / Karen Koehler -- The irreproducibility of the Bauhaus object / Robin Schuldenfrei -- The disappearing Bauhaus: architecture and its public in the early federal republic / Frederic J. Schwartz --Pedagogic objects: Josef Albers, Greenbergian modernism, and the Bauhaus in America / Jeffrey Saletnik -- A refuge for script: Paul Klee's Square Pictures / Annie Bourneuf -- Lyonel Feininger's Bauhaus photographs / Laura Muir -- Excavating surface: on the repair and revision of Lásló Moholy-Nagy's Z VII (1926) / Joyce Tsai -- Picturing sculpture: object, image and archive / Paul Paret -- Designing men: new visions of masculinity in the photomontages of Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and Lásló Moholy-Nagy / Elizabeth Otto -- The Bauhaus object between authorship and anonymity / Magdalena Droste -- The identity of design as intellectual property / T'ai Smith -- Bauhaus endgame: ambiguity, anxiety, and discomfort / Alina Payne
ISBN
  • 9780415778350 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 0415778352 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780415778367 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 0415778360 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780203868676 (ebk)
  • 0203868676 (ebk)
LCCN
^^2009014700
OCLC
297149198
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library