Bauhaus goes west : modern art and design in Britain and America /

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Author / Creator:Powers, Alan, 1955- author.
Imprint:London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Description:280 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11794990
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ISBN:9780500519929
0500519927
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Elective Affinities: England and Germany
  • 2. 'A simpler and more cordial accent'
  • 3. 'The habitability of the whole'
  • 4. 'That lovely madman'
  • 5. The People with No Taste: English Modernism in the 1930s
  • 6. Beneath the Radar: Other Bauhäusler in Britain
  • 7. For Better, for Worse: America's Bauhaus Affair
  • 8. Dead or Alive? The Bauhaus Legacy
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Sources of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index