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Paperback, Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd. Traces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students ABC's of the Bauhaus: Bauhaus and Design Theory By re-examining Bauhaus ideas and encouraging critical thinking about the means and ends of design, this work provides the opportunity to reinvigorate today's graphics. Conceived, designed and edited at The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union, New York, this book traces the origins and impact of the Bauhaus in relation to basic design, graphic design and typography. While the text is a challenging exploration of the Bauhaus's aims and achievements, the book itself is a manifesto of Bauhaus ideals, synthesizing editorial concept, typography and craftsmanship. Essays by eminent contributors address various aspects of the Bauhaus, including its relationship to Weimar culture, Herbert Bayer's geometric type design called 'universal', and the psychological implications of Kandinsky's celebrated attempts to establish fundamental laws of form and colour with his triangle/square/circle test. Illustrations include extensive samples of typographical design, instructional diagrams and symbols. Designed in a manner that befits the aspirations of the Bauhaus, this manual will be an inexhaustible fund of inspiration for design professionals and a revelation for all those interested in 20th-century culture. Bauhaus Ideal, Then and Now: An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design 'Design' itself was an invention of the Bauhaus era to combine usefulness, beauty and economy into a reasonable whole. This unique volume introduces modern design principles and examines them from an historically critical perspective. It concludes with some ideas for melding modern solemnity with postmodern irony. And in each phase, the illustrations speak as eloquently as the text. This invaluable book is itself a work of art and is issued at a time when there is a revival of interest in modernism-furniture by Corbusier, Noguchi and Eames has never been more popular. Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies, and De Stijl There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. This one is different, however, in a number of ways. First, it does not treat them as separate subjects, but in relation to each other. While their response to De Stijl throws some new light on Le Corbusier and Mies, it is above all De Stijl that can be more sharply defined in relation to them. Second, the purpose of the study is to excavate the philosophical foundations of the work, rather than merely to describe and discuss the work itself. Third, it looks for connections between the aims and ideals of the 1920s and such 'post-modern' concerns as the creation of habitable 'places' and the survival of the historical city. Bauhaus: 1919-33 (Architecture & Design S.) Not only is the volume reasonably priced, but it is illustrated with the best of examples of the timeless designs, and breaks down the facelessness associated with many art books. Droste not only more than accomplishes an extremely reasonable attempt at explaining the mystique behind the Bauhaus, but she also manages to place the school within its rightful place among modernist art and architecture in the 20th century. The book makes an ideal guide to the Bauhaus and its innovators, and will also direct readers who may not recognise the great artists and designers within, to other more detailed synopses and guides available. For someone like me, who admired the Bauhaus from a distance, but who knew little in depth of the personalities involved, this is an ideal starting point to appreciate probably the greatest influence on modern art and architecture yet. Catalogue Raisonne: Works, 1923-1926 - The Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau v. 4 The fourth volume (of nine) of Klee's catalogue raisonne covers the years 1923-26, when he was active as a professor at the Bauhaus, first in Weimar and then in Dessau. It includes works inspired by the artist's visits to La Coruna in Spain, and to Italy and Sicily Bauhaus, Modernism, and the Ill Book Hudson River School paintings are among America’s most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world. Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the major figures of the Hudson River School. Each work is beautifully reproduced in full colour and is accompanied by a concise description of its significance and historical background. The book also includes artists’ biographies and a brief introduction to American nineteenth- century landscape painting and the Wadsworth Atheneum’s unique role in collecting Hudson River pictures. The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design Theory (Art Reference S.) Paperback Publisher: Herbert Press Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism Paperback Publisher: Fromm International Publishing Corporation Bauhaus Lighting? Kandemlight! Hardcover, Publisher: Arnoldsche,Germany This work documents the collaboration between the two lighting design houses of Kandem and Bauhaus Bauhaus (Basic Art S.) Functional beauty Founded in Welmar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography, and even theater. Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. In 1930 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over as the leader, but soon after, in 1933, the Nazi government shut down the school. During its fourteen years of existence, Bauhaus managed to change the faces of art, architecture, and industrial design forever and is still hugely influential today The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago A comprehensive collection of documents and pictorial material on the famous school of design provides a unique research source into all aspects of the movement and its work Biedermeier to Bauhaus: Authentic German Decor A study of the interior design styles original to Germany. The reader is taken on a tour of German interiors from the 16th to the early-20th centuries, through Rococco summer palaces, elegant middle-class Biedermeier villas and simple rural retreats to the functional forms of the Bauhaus Dot. City: Urban Design and New Media in the Bauhaus Kolleg The book shows the "media-isation" of urban life as a global phenomenon and describes the consequences that result for shaping the living space that is the city. Deep Action: Wolfgang Petrick and Master Students Contains a group exhibition catalogue of 25 artists whose common thread is the fact that they all studied under Wolfgang Petrick - one of the leading exponents of the 1970's Critical Realism movement The New Architecture and the Bauhaus Paperback Publisher: The MIT Press Bauhaus Hardcover Publisher: Carlton Paul Klee Paul Klee was a teacher at the famous Bauhaus school, and as such played an important role in the evolution of the applied arts. This is a fresh reading of his works, including extracts from the "Pedagogical Sketchbook", to throw new light on his ideas Teaching Bauhaus Within the space of only 14 years, the Bauhaus set the course of modern design. This is the account of the main pedagogical concepts behind the work of this art school. Analytical essays illuminate the various approaches of staff members in the Bauhaus, which included Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky and Klee. Additional chapters of this reference work investigate the pre-history of the Bauhaus and its predecessors in matters of art training, outling the the development of the institution from 1919 to 1933 The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919-1936 The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar in 1919 by the German architect Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932, and was dissolved in 1933 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe under political duress. Although it only existed for 14 years and boasted fewer than 1300 students, its influence is felt throughout the world in numerous buildings, artworks, objects, concepts and curricula. This book shows that the fame of the Bauhaus in America was the result not only of the inherent qualities of its concepts and products, but also a congruence of cultural supply and demand, of a consistent flow of information and of fine-tuned marketing. Thus the history of the American reception of the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s foreshadows the patterns of fame-making that became typical of the post -World War II art world. The transfer of artistic, intellectual and pedagogical concepts from one cultural context to another is a process of transformation and integration. In presenting a case study of this process, the book also provides fresh insights into the German-American cultural history of the period from 1919 to 1936 Bauhaus Textiles: Women Artists and the Weaving Workshop Longest standing and most successful of all Bauhaus enterprises was the Weaving Workshop, whose talented female designers created beautiful textiles, pouring all their energy and talent into this fresh and challenging field of interest. Embracing advanced technology, they used unusual materials (such as cellophane and early synthetics), and made reversible fabrics with acoustic and light-reflecting properties as well as other innovative experimental textiles. Their striking, brightly coloured geometric designs generated renewed interest in hand-weaving and a new professionalism in designing fabrics for mass- production. In this study, illustrated with both full-colour and rare historical photographs, Sigrid Wortmann Weltge recreates the atmosphere of excitement and creativity at the Bauhaus. Original archival research, as well as interviews with survivors and their students and with leading contemporary designers, detail the workshop's history and its legacy: wonderful fabrics still being produced today Biedermeier to Bauhaus: Authentic German Decor A study of the interior design styles original to Germany. The reader is taken on a tour of German interiors from the 16th to the early-20th centuries, through Rococco summer palaces, elegant middle-class Biedermeier villas and simple rural retreats to the functional forms of the Bauhaus. Catalogue Raisonne: 1927-1930: The Bauhaus in Dessau; Exhibition in New York v. 5 Paul Klee is one of the most significant arists of the 20th century. For the nine volumes of this catalogue raisonne, the Berne-based Paul Klee Foundation has researched the artist's 9,600 drawings, prints, watercolours and oil paintings. Each volume contains an introduction in German and English, and an explanation of the catalogue system. All the entries are illustrated and include catalogue numbers, technical descriptions, measurements, references to related works, details of provenance and location, relevant literature and a list of exhibitions and auctions in which works have appeared. Klee's own entries from the diary that he maintained from 1911 onwards are also included, and the most important works are illustrated in colour. From 1927 to 1930, Klee's teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau was interspersed with trips abroad. These included a journey up the Nile to see the famous monuments at Luxor, Karnak, Thebes and other ancient Egyptian sites. He also visited the south of France and northern Italy. All of these were valuable sources of visual inspiration. In 1930, to celebrate Klee's 50th birthday, a major exhibition of his work was held in Berlin, followed by another at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Bauhaus (Design Monograph S.) Hardcover Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism Hardcover, Publisher: Fromm International Publishing Corporation Documents the struggle of Walter Gropius and his efforts to keep his utopian vision of a school financially afloat amidst political and ideological conflicts within the faculty. Bayer Herbert - The Bauhaus Legacy Hardcover Publisher: Kent Gallery Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art One of the goals of Modernism was the presentation of the essence of art, or pure form. Encouraged by theorists, modern artists found pure form in ornament which, though promising, was sullied by connotations of materiality, domesticity, and femininity. Jenny Anger demonstrates that the decorative significantly informed Paul Klee's art. She compares his work to that of another major modernist, Henri Matisse, to confirm the critical role of the decorative in Modernism. Anger also explores the relevance of the decorative for contemporary and, especially, women artists. Paul Klee: Painting Music A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of the inspiration for his abstract art from musical rhythms and structure. Like a composer, he developed and harmonized pictorial themes, weaving a complex series of signs and symbols into his painting. In this book, the art historian Hajo Duechting focuses his study primarily on Klee's decade-long tenure at the Bauhaus, where the artist's theories and practice first merged, and where he was to develop his Colour Spectrum, Square and Polyphone painting series. Illustrated throughout with full- colour reproductions of Klee's paintings and etchings, as well as entries from his diaries, this study aims to shed light on an important aspect of Klee's work, while providing insights into his development as an abstract artist. Paul Klee: Life and Work This edition provides an immensely compressed pciture of the artistic and the human side of Paul Klee's career, unfolding by way of the extensive pictorial material and accompanying essays. Dreaming Pictures: Paul Klee (Adventures in Art S.) The author examines 14 paintings by Paul Klee through the eyes of children, using their comments to provide an insight into Klee's composition and to interpret the message in his pictures, particularly how he portrays feelings, experience and dreams. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Hardcover, Publisher: Hatje Cantz This volume is published in conjunction with the opening of the new museum devoted to the life and works of Paul Klee. Klee (Masters of Art S.) A broad selection of representative color reproductions presented with individual analysis and supplemented with a brief biography. Modern Art Paperback Publisher: Faber and Faber Paul Klee Rediscovered Hardcover Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd Wassily Kandinsky (Taschen Portfolio S.) Paperback Publisher: Taschen Wassily Kandinsky Collects 40 colorplate reproductions of Kandinsky's major works, each accompanied by commentary. Meser (Director Emeritus of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY) has selected from major museum collections notable paintings from every period of the artist's long and varied career. In an introductory essay, he discusses Kandinsky's highly origin. Wassily Kandinsky This series provides pictures of the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists and their influence on the world of art. Each title includes: reconstruction artwork of particular scenes from the artist's life; examples of the artist's work at various stages of their life with text to link their life and work; and the life story and photographs of the artist. This title focuses on the life and work of Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky (Basic Art Album S.) The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realize this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky This dazzling volume enables art-lovers everywhere to savour the delights of one of the world's finest private collections of modern art. Long known to experts and scholars, the Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher collection is unique in that the owners have only been willing to collect an artist's very best works - true masterpieces. Displayed here, in vibrant full colour, are outstanding works by Cezanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Braque, Nolde, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Chagall and Calder, among many others. The earliest works are by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, but the collection focuses primarily on the Fauves and the German Impressionists. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, this book will appeal to all who love modern art and colour Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonne: 1900-21 v. 1 Hardcover Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter (Pegasus Paperbacks) Kandinsky and Munter were the moving spirits of the Blue Rider school, which pioneered the epochal turn from figurative painting to abstraction. This volume traces the development of the couple's personal and artistic relationship from its beginnings in 1902 to the key moment in 1914 when Kandinsky fled Germany and returned to his native Russia. The story of their life together - and of the underlying tensions which eventually drove them apart - is told through the artists' letters, in diary extracts and memoirs, and in reproductions of their finest paintings and sketches Kandinsky: Compositions Paperback Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Kandinsky Card Book Publisher: Parkstone Press Ltd The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee in the New World A discussion of the life and work of Bill Traylor, who was born into slavery in 1854 and only began to draw at the age of 82. It places his art in its social and historical background, exploring its relationship with African-American music, the economic depression, and race relations in Alabama.
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