The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics /

The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics / / Éva Forgács.

Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on its artefacts. What gave this idea its extraordinary powers of survival? Founded in 1919, with the architect Walter Gropius as its first director, the Bauh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Forgács, Éva,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (249 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Beauty of Progress
  • 2. Time out of Joint
  • 3. 'We Shall Draw Grand Designs ...'
  • 4. First Steps
  • 5. Weimar
  • 6. Breathing Exercises
  • 7. Time
  • 8. New Faces
  • 9. lf We lntend to Survive
  • 10. The New Unity
  • 11 . Man at the Control Panel
  • 12. The Part Versus the Whole
  • 13. Why did Gropius Leave?
  • 14. Hannes Meyer
  • 15. Parallel Fates? Weimar, Dessau and Moscow
  • 16. Endgame
  • Epilogue: Liberalism's Utopia
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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