Bauhaus 1919-1933. Workshops for Modernity.

Bauhaus 1919-1933. Workshops for Modernity. By Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman. 2009. 328pp., 475 illustrations, 12x9.5".

" 'Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity', published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition, is The Museum of Modern Art’s first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938.

It offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth century’s most influential experiment in artistic education, and examines the extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school’s products.

Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if ever been seen outside of Germany.

Featuring approximately 400 full-color plates richly complemented by a range of documentary images, Bauhaus 1919–1933 includes two overarching essays by the exhibition’s curators, Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman; shorter object-specific essays by more than twenty leading scholars; and an illustrated, narrative chronology that provides a dynamic glimpse of the Bauhaus’s lived history."


The MoMA exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity is on until January 25, 2010.


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