1st Edition
Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art Optical Deconstructions
By Edit Tóth
Copyright 2018
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
66 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
66 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1.Introduction; 2. Orienting The New Woman: Breuer’s Furniture and Complex Gender Expressivity at the Haus Am Horn; 3. Optical Improvisations: Jazz, Film and Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage Domestic Interventions: Brandt’s "Mediatized" Objects and Self-Portrait Photographs; 5. "Taking Apart" The Sukiya: The Yamawakis’ Postwar Tokyo Home' 6. Vertigo and Kepes’s Light Art in 1950’s America; 7. Contemporary Art, Architecture and Media Recovering Material Space
Biography
Edit Toth is Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
