Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman. With contributions by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. Brigid Doherty. Hal Foster. Charles W. Haxthausen. Andreas Huyssen. Michael Jennings. Juliet Kinchin. Ellen Lupton. Christine Mehring. Detlef Mertins. Marco De Michelis. Peter Nisbet. Paul Monty Paret. Alex Potts. Frederic J. Schwarz. T’ai Smith. Adrian Sudhalter. Klaus Weber. Christopher Wilk. and Matthew S. Witkovsky
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity. published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition. is The Museum of Modern Art’s first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938. It offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth century’s most influential experiment in artistic education. and examines the extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school’s products. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if ever been seen outside of Germany.
Featuring approximately 400 full-color plates richly complemented by a range of documentary images. Bauhaus 1919–1933 includes two overarching essays by the exhibition’s curators. Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman; shorter object-specific essays by more than twenty leading scholars; and an illustrated. narrative chronology that provides a dynamic glimpse of the Bauhaus’s lived history. 328 pp.; 510 illus.
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