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Bauhaus (World of Art)

Bauhaus (World of Art)

by Frank Whitford (Author)

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    Paperback 1984

    $3.80
Synopsis

The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world.

Setting everything against a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind its conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers - artists as eminent as Paul Klee and Kandinsky - and the daily lives of the students. Everything is described with the aid, wherever possible, of the words of those who were there at the time.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 216
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 14 May 1984
ISBN 10: 0500201935
ISBN 13: 9780500201930
Book Overview: An accessible history of the Bauhaus, tracing the ideas behind its conception and its highly influential teaching methods

Media Reviews
'A much needed and very lucid account' - The Times Educational Supplement
'Concise, well constructed, entertaining and eminently readable' - Architects' Journal
Author Bio
Frank Whitford was an art historian and critic, and one of Britain's leading experts on 20th-century German and Austrian art. During his varied career, he lectured on the history of art at University College London and Homerton College, Cambridge, wrote several books and served as a newspaper art critic. From 1983 onwards he was a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.