Taken by Design
Subtitle: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971
Contributors: David Travis (Editor); Elizabeth Siegel (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226811673
Subjects: Industrial / Commercial Art & Design; Photographs: collections; Art; Photography; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; General; Exhibitions; History; Institute of Design (Chicago,; Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.); Photography, Artistic
First sentence: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy accepted Walter Gropius's invitation to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, in 1923, he joined an institution whose educational philosophy was completely compatible with his own ideas of the enlightening role of art in an industrialized society.