The Bauhaus reassessed : sources and design theory / Gillian Naylor.
By: Naylor, Gillian [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : The Herbert Press, 1985Copyright date: ©1985Description: 198 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0906969301 (paperback).Subject(s): Bauhaus | Design -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Art -- Study and teaching -- GermanyDDC classification: 709.43Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A study of the aims, achievements and dilemmas of a school that attempted to transform teaching methods as well as initiate reforms in architecture and design in a period of social, political and economic uncertainty.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-194) and index.
Part I: Sources. Educational theory -- Craft and industry -- The Werkbund -- Part II: The Bauhaus in Weimar. War and revolution -- The cathedral of socialism -- The workshops -- Johannes Itten and the basic course -- Claims for art: Kandinsky and Klee; Van Doesburg and Moholy-Nagy -- Crisis and consolidation -- Part III: The Bauhaus in Dessau. Dessau: the great transformation -- Dessau and architecture -- From workshop to laboratory -- Hannes Meyer: formalism or functionalism? -- Confrontation and collapse.