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Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bringing together an international team of scholars this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing typography and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history design history photography and architectural history. | Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A graduate of the Bauhaus Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son Eldar Sharon joined the office in 1964. Thus the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall. This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture modern architecture Israel studies Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge. | Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

GBP 130.00
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Weimar A Cultural History

Weimar A Cultural History

The term Weimar culture while generally accepted is in some respects unsatisfactory if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army nor is there any obvious connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the escape of the Kaiser nor were the great scientific discoveries triggered off by the proclamation of the Republic in 1919. As the eminent historian Walter Laqueur demonstrates the avant-gardism commonly associated with post-World War One precedes the Weimar Republic by a decade. It would no doubt be easier for the historian if the cultural history of Weimar were identical with the plays and theories of Bertolt Brecht; the creations of the Bauhaus and the articles published by the Weltbühne. But there were a great many other individuals and groups at work and Laqueur gives a full and vivid accounting of their ideas and activities. The realities of Weimar culture comprise the political right as well as the left the universities as well as the literary intelligentsia. It would not be complete without occasional glances beyond avant-garde thought and creation and their effects upon traditional German social and cultural attitudes and the often violent reactions against Weimar that would culminate with the rise of Hitler and the fall of the republic in 1933. This authoritative work is of immense importance to anyone interested in the history of Germany in this critical period of the country's life. | Weimar A Cultural History

GBP 130.00
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