Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism
Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school's history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural context in which they were produced and received. Collectively, its essays take into account the primacy of cultural objects in fashioning a critical history of the school.\ Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the history of art, architecture, and design,...
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Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received. Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today - including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and Alina Payne - offer an entirely new treatment of the Bauhaus. Issues such as art and design pedagogy, the practice of photography, copyright law, and critical theory are discussed. Through a strong thematic structure, new archival research and innovative methodologies, the questions and subsequent conclusions presented here re-examine the history of the Bauhaus and its continuing legacy. Essential reading for anyone studying the Bauhaus, modern art and design.
Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction Jeffrey Saletnik Robin Schuldenfrei 1Part 1 Agents 111 The Bauhaus Manifesto Postwar to Postwar: From the Street to the Wall to the Radio to the Memoir Karen Koehler 132 The Irreproducibility of the Bauhaus Object Robin Schuldenfrei 373 The Disappearing Bauhaus: Architecture and its Public in the Early Federal Republic Frederic J. Schwartz 614 Pedagogic Objects: Josef Albers, Greenbergian Modernism, and the Bauhaus in America Jeffrey Saletnik 83Part 2 Transference 1035 A Refuge for Script: Paul Klee's "Square Pictures" Annie Bourneuf 1056 Lyonel Feininger's Bauhaus Photographs Laura Muir 1257 Excavating Surface: On the Repair and Revision of László Moholy-Nagy's Z VII (1926) Joyce Tsai 1428 Picturing Sculpture: Object, Image and Archive Paul Paret 163Part 3 Object Identity 1819 Designing Men: New Visions of Masculinity in the Photomontages of Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy Elizabeth Otto 18310 The Bauhaus Object between Authorship and Anonymity Magdalena Droste 20511 The Identity of Design as Intellectual Property T'ai Smith 226Coda 245Bauhaus Endgame: Ambiguity, Anxiety, and Discomfort Alina Payne 247Illustration Credits 267Index 271
