Design and visual culture from the Bauhaus to contemporary art : optical deconstructions This book complements the more textually based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice oriented and creative interpretive method which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under studied topics the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space the space of dimensionality and everyday activity