Title: Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art
Description: 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.
Subjects: Design, history, Design, History, Histoire, ART, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Techniques, Drawing, Bauhaus, Graphic arts, Visual communication, Photography, Fotografie, Ästhetik, Rezeption, Bild, Materialität