Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

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ISBN: 9780415778367 | 0415778360
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Copyright: 10/22/2009

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Looking at the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the school's history, this book features contributions from some of the most brilliant scholars writing in the field today. It offers an entirely new treatment of the Bauhaus school and through a strong thematic structure, the questions and subsequent conclusions presented by the contributors re-examine the history of the Bauhaus and its continuing legacy.

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Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Agents	p. 11
The Bauhaus Manifesto Postwar to Postwar: From the Street to the Wall to the Radio to the Memoir	p. 13
The Irreproducibility of the Bauhaus Object	p. 37
The Disappearing Bauhaus: Architecture and its Public in the Early Federal Republic	p. 61
Pedagogic Objects: Josef Albers, Greenbergian Modernism, and the Bauhaus in America	p. 83
Transference	p. 103
A Refuge for Script: Paul Klee's "Square Pictures"	p. 105
Lyonel Feininger's Bauhaus Photographs	p. 125
Excavating Surface: On the Repair and Revision of László Moholy-Nagy's Z VII (1926)	p. 142
Picturing Sculpture: Object, Image and Archive	p. 163
Object Identity	p. 181
Designing Men: New Visions of Masculinity in the Photomontages of Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy	p. 183
The Bauhaus Object between Authorship and Anonymity	p. 205
The Identity of Design as Intellectual Property	p. 226
Coda	p. 245
Bauhaus Endgame: Ambiguity, Anxiety, and Discomfort	p. 247
Illustration Credits	p. 267
Index	p. 271
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Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

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