Bauhaus : crucible of modernism /
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| Author / Creator: | Hochman, Elaine S. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Fromm International, 1997. |
| Description: | xii, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2727963 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Youth, War, and Revolution
- 2. The Beauty of Efficient Form: Tyranny, Treason, or Salvation? Background to the Bauhaus
- 3. A Fragile Moment: Weimar, Gropius, and the Avant-Garde
- 4. Storming into Weimar: The City as Relic or Harbinger
- 5. A Hornet's Nest: Tradition Meets the New, Changed World
- 6. "A Plague Bacillus": The Political Implications of the Bauhaus, Imagined and Real
- 7. The Paradox of Bauhaus Politics, 1920: Denial and Pursuit
- 8. What Happened to November? The End of the Revolution and Its Implications for the Bauhaus
- 9. From Geist to Gadgets: The Bauhaus Attempts to Change
- 10. Victory or Total Destruction: The End of the Weimar Bauhaus
- 11. "Those Happier Shores": Young Americans Meet Europe
- 12. "Dessau Impossible"
- 13. Dessau 1927: A Critical Election
- 14. Triumph of the Right
- 15. Death and Transfiguration
- Epilogue: The Bauhaus in America.
