Bauhaus imaginista: A school in the world/ Editors: Marion von Osten and Grant Watson

CONTENTS: -- Marion von Osten and Grant Watson - Introduction --Magdalena Droste - Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus Manifesto --Partha Mitter - Teaching Art at Santiniketan and Weimar: Some Unexpected Meeting Points --Anshuman Dasgupta - The Intimate and the Contingent: Art and Craft in the Pedagogy of Santiniketan --The Otolith Group - Living in an O Horizon --Helena Čapková - Framing Renshichirō Kawakita’s Transcultural Legacy and His Pedagogy --Yoshimasa Kaneko - On the Reception of Johannes Itten’s Art Education in Japan --Hiromitsu Umemiya - Manual for Teaching Thinking through Construction (1934): An Introduction --Luca Frei - Model for a Pedagogical Vehicle --Fabienne Eggelhöfer - Paul Klee’s Pictures of Architectural Tapestries --Susanne Leeb - Books on World Art from the 1920s: On the Ambivalence of a Discursive Awakening --Kader Attia - Colonial Melancholia --Mohamed Melehi - The Bauhaus as a Catalyst --Virginia Gardner Troy - The Andean Textile Paradigm at the Bauhaus --Elissa Auther - The Appropriation of the Ancient Past in Modern Fibre Art --Elvira Espejo - Watch and Learn: Local Instructions from My Community --Ailton Krenak and Bené Fonteles - The Bauhaus and Indigenous Cultural Production --Paulo Tavares - Des-Habitat --Hilde Heynen - Anticipating the Future: Three Lines of Development --Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley - Designing Life --Daniel Talesnik - The Red Itinerary --Thomas Flierl - The CIAM Protest: From Moscow to the Patris II (1932) --Zoe Zhang - Modern Craft and Art (1932): An Introduction --Eduard Kögel - Useful Tradition? Walter Gropius meets China (or I. M. Pei) --Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan - Designing Life in India --Regina Bittner - Design for Need: Sudhakar Nadkarni’s Milk Kiosk --Zvi Efrat - Arieh Sharon’s Nigerian Campus Project: Ife University (1960–85) --Wendelien van Oldenborgh - Housing with Shadows and Mirrors: Notes towards a Work --Melissa Venator - Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s Reflektorische Lichtspiele (Reflecting Light Plays, 1922) --Christian Hiller - bauhaus past forward --Tom Holer - From Giving to Unforgiving Light: Remarks on the Kaleidoscopic and the Stroboscopic --Adrian Rifkin - Untimely lessons, or how we could no longer learn from the Bauhaus --Gavin Butt - Polytechnics and Punks: The 1970s After-life of the Bauhaus --László Moholy-Nagy - Sketch for a Score for a Mechanized Eccentric

bauhaus imaginista. A School in the World traces the history of the international impact and reception of the Bauhaus’s practices and teachings against the backdrop of major geopolitical transitions of the 20th century. It focuses on the mutual dialog and exchange of the Bauhaus, its students and teachers with non-European modernists in places like India, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil and the United States. Following the four large-scale exhibition and project chapters Corresponding With, Learning From, Moving Away and Still Undead and based on a multi-year research project, the volume sweepingly examines the reception history of the Bauhaus and its global impact, which still continues today.

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