Bauhaus goes west : modern art and design in Britain and America /
'Bauhaus Goes West' is a story of cultural exchange, between the Bauhaus emigres in the years following the school's closure in 1933 and the countries to which they moved, focusing in particular on Britain. Taking as its starting point the cultural connections between the United Kingd...
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London ; New York :
Thames & Hudson,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Elective Affinities: England and Germany
- 2. ̀A simpler and more cordial accent': Walter Gropius
- 3. ̀The habitability of the whole': Marcel Breuer
- 4. ̀That lovely madman': Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- 5. The People with No Taste: English Modernism in the 1930s
- 6. Beneath the Radar: Other Bouhausler in Britain
- 7. For Better, for Worse: America's Bauhaus Affair
- 8. Dead or Alive? The Bauhaus Legacy.