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Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bringing together an international team of scholars this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing typography and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history design history photography and architectural history. | Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

GBP 130.00
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The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic cybernetic and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl the Bauhaus and Russian constructivism when he emigrated to Detroit in 1923 he introduced the vanguard theory of productivism through his photography essays designs and pedagogy. By following Lönberg- Holm’s ongoing matrix of relations until the postwar era with the European vanguards in CIAM and former members of the Structural Study Associates (SSA) especially Fuller Frederick Kiesler and C. Theodore Larson this study shows how their definition of building as a form of environmental control anticipated the contemporary disciplines of industrial ecology industrial metabolism and energy accounting. | The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

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Cubism and Abstract Art

Cubism and Abstract Art

Originally published in 1936 in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century and which had an impact on every major form of art. Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France – Seurat and Neo-Impressionism Gauguin and Synthetism and Cézanne – through abstract tendencies in Dada and Surrealism. He distinguishes two main trends in abstract art: the geometrical structural current as it developed in Cubism and later in Constructivism and Mondrian and the intuitional decorative current running from Matisse and Fauvism through Kandinskt and later Surrealism. He shows how individual movements influenced one another and how many artists experimented with more than one style. Barr also discusses the involvement of a number of abstract movements in architecture and the practical arts – the Bauhaus in Germany de Stijl in Holland Purism in France and Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia. | Cubism and Abstract Art

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Theatres of Architectural Imagination

Theatres of Architectural Imagination

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity underpinning memory invention and compassion. No simple power of the mind architectural imagination is deeply embodied social and situational. Its performative potential and holistic scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship between theatre and architecture with essays interviews and entr’actes arranged in three sections: Bodies Settings and (Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spectrum of examples and contexts from ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy to modern Europe North America India Iran and Japan. Topics include the central role of the human body in design; the city as a place of political drama protest and phenomenal play; and world-making through language gesture and myth. Chapters also consider sacred and magical functions of theatre in Balinese and Persian settings; eccentric experiments at the Bauhaus and 1970 Osaka World Expo; and ecological action and collective healing amid contemporary climate chaos. Inspired by architect and educator Marco Frascari the book performs as a Janus-like memory theatre recalling and projecting the architect’s perennial task of reimagining a more meaningful world. This collection will delight and provoke thinkers and makers in theatrical arts and built environment disciplines especially architecture landscape and urban design.

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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A graduate of the Bauhaus Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son Eldar Sharon joined the office in 1964. Thus the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall. This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture modern architecture Israel studies Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge. | Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

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Weimar A Cultural History

Weimar A Cultural History

The term Weimar culture while generally accepted is in some respects unsatisfactory if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army nor is there any obvious connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the escape of the Kaiser nor were the great scientific discoveries triggered off by the proclamation of the Republic in 1919. As the eminent historian Walter Laqueur demonstrates the avant-gardism commonly associated with post-World War One precedes the Weimar Republic by a decade. It would no doubt be easier for the historian if the cultural history of Weimar were identical with the plays and theories of Bertolt Brecht; the creations of the Bauhaus and the articles published by the Weltbühne. But there were a great many other individuals and groups at work and Laqueur gives a full and vivid accounting of their ideas and activities. The realities of Weimar culture comprise the political right as well as the left the universities as well as the literary intelligentsia. It would not be complete without occasional glances beyond avant-garde thought and creation and their effects upon traditional German social and cultural attitudes and the often violent reactions against Weimar that would culminate with the rise of Hitler and the fall of the republic in 1933. This authoritative work is of immense importance to anyone interested in the history of Germany in this critical period of the country's life. | Weimar A Cultural History

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Resilience

Resilience

Is resilience simply a fad or is it a new way of thinking about human–environment relations and the governance of these relations that has real staying power? Is resilience a dangerous depoliticizing concept that neuters incipient political activity or the key to more empowering emancipatory and participatory forms of environmental management? Resilience offers an advanced introduction to these debates. It provides students with a detailed review of how the concept emerged from a small corner of ecology to critically challenge conventional environmental management practices and radicalize how we can think about and manage social and ecological change. But Resilience also situates this new style of thought and management within a particular historical and geographical context. It traces the roots of resilience to the cybernetically-influenced behavioral science of Herbert Simon the neoliberal political economic theory of new institutional economics the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey and the modernist design aesthetic of the Bauhaus school. These diverse roots are what distinguish resilience approaches from other ways of studying human-environment relations. Resilience thinking recalibrates the study of social and environmental change around a will to design a drive or desire to synthesize diverse forms of knowledge and develop collaborative cross-boundary solutions to complex problems. In contrast to the modes of analysis and critique found in geography and cognate disciplines resilience approaches strive to pragmatically transform human–environment relations in ways that will produce more sustainable futures for complex social and ecological systems. In providing a road map to debates over resilience that brings together research from geography anthropology sociology international relations and philosophy this book gives readers the conceptual and theoretical tools necessary to engage with political and ethical questions about how we can and should live together in an increasingly interconnected and unpredictable world.

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Illusion in Cultural Practice Productive Deceptions

Illusion in Cultural Practice Productive Deceptions

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion magic shows or special effects as a vital part of how we perceive process and shape the world in which we live. Considering different cultural practices characterized by illusionism this book suggests a new approach to illusion via media theory. Each of the chapters analyses a specific kind of illusionistic practice and the concept of illusionism it entails in a given context including philosophy perception and cognitive theory performance magic occultism optics physiology early cinema cartomancy spiritualism architecture shamanic rituals and theoretical physics to show the diversity of shapes that illusionism and illusions can take. The book provides detailed analyses of illusions within performance and ritual magic philosophy art history and psychology as well as a first approach to the study of illusions outside of these established fields. It aims to find ways of identifying and analysing a wider range of illusions in the humanities. This multidisciplinary and comprehensive volume will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in media and culture theatre and performance philosophy sociology politics and religion. This publication was supported by the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. IKKM Books Volume 47An overview of the whole series can be found atwww. ikkm-weimar. de/schriften Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4. 0 license https://www. taylorfrancis. com/chapters/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003188278-8/vanishing-lady-railway-illusions-movement-1-katharina-rein?context=ubx&refId=fe124e6e-8290-43e9-9d48-753bad162c50 Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license https://www. taylorfrancis. com/chapters/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003188278-13/talking-rocks-illusory-sounds-projections-otherworld-julia-shpinitskaya-riitta-rainio?context=ubx&refId=3aa829a8-8c0b-4103-870a-6fe5a4393e71 | Illusion in Cultural Practice Productive Deceptions

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