Title: Bauhaus conflicts, 1919-2009 : controversies and counterparts /
Authors: Oswalt, Philipp; Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.; Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Bauhaus History.; Art schools Germany History
Contents: Introduction / Philipp Oswalt -- Un-German activities : attacks from the right, 1919-1933 / Justus H. Ulbricht -- "Clash of the natural and the mechanical human" : Theo van Doesburg versus Johannes Itten, 1922 / Kai-Uwe Hemken -- The dictate of coldness : critique from the left, 1919-1933 / Michael Müller -- The successor's disinheritance : the conflict between Hannes Meyer and Walter Gropius / Magdalena Droste -- Surfaces for a technically obsolete world : R. Buckminster Fuller, Shelter magazine, and the opposition to the International style / Joachim Krausse -- A failed rebirth : the Bauhaus and Stalinism, 1945-1952 / Simone Hain -- The postwar dispute in West Germany : the renewal of rationalism / Thilo Hilpert -- Honoring the dead father? : the situationists as heirs to the Bauhaus / Jörn Etzold -- The Bauhaus and Ulm / Otl Aicher -- The Bauhaus as a Cold War weapon : an American-German joint venture / Paul Betts -- State-supporting boredom : the distance of the 1968 student movement / Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm -- State doctrine or criticism of the regime : Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1963-1990 / Wolfgang Thöner -- Lemon tarts on a Barcelona chair : Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus to our house / Ullrich Schwarz -- "This chair is a work of art" : the zigzag course of Bauhaus furniture on the path to fame / Gerda Breuer -- Just a façade? : the conflict over the reconstruction of the masters' houses / Walter Prigge.