num_pages: 224
description: Surrounded as we are today by examples of the Bauhaus philosophy of design - in architecture, painting, sculpture, photography an film, theater, industrial design, pottery and metalwork, textiles, advertising, and typography - few can be unaware of the importance of this monumental German institution. From 19119 until it was closed by the National Socialists in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together on its faculty more artists of distinguished talent than any other art school in history. Perhaps the greatest contribution of these masters and their students was the breakdown of the hierarchy than had previously divided the fine from the applied arts. Faced with the problem of good design for mass production they courageously accepted the machine as an instrument worthy of the artist an bridged the gap between the artist and the industrial system.Bauhaus 1919-1928 originally published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1938, remains today one of the most valuable accounts of the magnificent achievements of the school. The book is a point-for-point record of actual programs and projects at the Bauhaus, prepared by Herbert Bayer under the general editorship of Walter Gropius and the collaboration of a dozen other Bauhaus teachers - including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Schlemmer, Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, and Breuer.
language: English
title: Bauhaus, 1919-1928
titlecomplete: Bauhaus, 1919-1928
genres: Art
ratings_count: 15
publisher: New York:; The Museum of Modern Art; 1986