Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art

Optical Deconstructions
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-48061-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tóth, Edit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1.Introduction; 2. Orienting The New Woman: Breuer’s Furniture and Complex Gender Expressivity at the Haus Am Horn; 3. Optical Improvisations: Jazz, Film and Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage Domestic Interventions: Brandt’s "Mediatized" Objects and Self-Portrait Photographs; 5. "Taking Apart" The Sukiya: The Yamawakis’ Postwar Tokyo Home' 6. Vertigo and Kepes’s Light Art in 1950’s America; 7. Contemporary Art, Architecture and Media Recovering Material Space

Über Autor(innen)

Edit Toth is Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.