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The Bauhaus reassessed : sources and design theory / Gillian Naylor.

By: Naylor, Gillian [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: 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: 709.43
Contents:
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.
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General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00228312
General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00055126
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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.

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