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Bauhaus
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Bauhaus
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Frank Whitford
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Series | World of Art |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:216 | Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 149 |
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Category/Genre | Art and design styles - Modernist design and Bauhaus |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780500204627
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Classifications | Dewey:709.430904 |
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Audience | |
Edition |
Second edition
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Illustrations |
154 Illustrations, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Imprint |
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Publication Date |
12 March 2020 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the school left an indelible mark on design as well as the practice of art education throughout the world. Placing the Bauhaus into its socio-historic context, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind the school's conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers, who included artists as eminent as Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, and the daily lives of the students. This remains the most accessible and highly illustrated introduction to perhaps the most significant design movement of the last hundred years.
Author Biography
Frank Whitford was an art historian and critic, and one of Britain's leading experts on 20th-century German and Austrian art. During his varied career, he lectured on the history of art at University College London and Homerton College, Cambridge, wrote several books and served as a newspaper art critic. From 1983 onwards he was a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Reviews''Concise, well constructed, entertaining and eminently readable'' - Architects' Journal ''A much needed and very lucid account'' - The Times Educational Supplement
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