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title	:	The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics
author	:	Forgacs, Eva.
publisher	:	Central European University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1858660122
print isbn13	:	9781858660127
ebook isbn13	:	9780585340678
language	:	English
subject	Bauhaus--History.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	N332.G33B44413 1995eb
ddc	:	707/.1/143224
subject	:	Bauhaus--History.

Page iii The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics va Forgcs Translated by JOHN BTKI

Page iv First published in Hungarian as Bauhaus in 1991 by Jelenkor irodalmi s Muveszeti*, Pcs Forgcs va 1991 First published in English as The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics in 1995 Second printing 1997 English translation copyright CEU Press 1995 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85866-013-0 Hardback ISBN 1-85866-012-2 Paperback Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Published by Central European University Press 1051 Budapest Oktber 6. utca 12. Hungary Distributed by Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Toronto Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York Printed and bound in Hungary by Cerberus Kft., Budapest

Page v Contents List of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Beauty of Progress 5 2. Time out of Joint 14 3. 'We Shall Draw Grand Designs... ' 22 4. First Steps 31 5. Weimar 38 6. Breathing Exercises 46 7. Time 63 8. New Faces 81 9. If We Intend to Survive 98 10. The New Unity 104 11. Man at the Control Panel 118 12. The Part Versus the Whole 126 13. Why did Gropius Leave? 146 14. Hannes Meyer 159 15. Parallel Fates? Weimar, Dessau and Moscow 182 16. Endgame 194 Epilogue: Liberalism's Utopia 200 Notes 203 Bibliography 223 Index 231

Page vi List of Illustrations 1 Illustration for the April 1919 handbill of the Arbeitsrat (woodcut, probably by Max Pechstein) 2 Walter Gropius in Dessau, around 1926 (anonymous photo) 3 Johannes Itten wearing a robe of his own design (anonymous photo) 4 Oskar Schlemmer and students, Dessau, 1927/8 (photo T. Lux Feininger) 5 Schlemmer's theatre: 'Black and White', detail (photo T. Lux Feininger) 6 Reconstruction of a work in paper from Josef Albers's 1927/8 Preliminary Course (photo courtesy of Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin) 7 Gropius in the company of Bla Bartk and Paul Klee in 1927 (anonymous photo, courtesy of Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass.) 8 The Bauhaus as Stage, circa 1927 (photo T. Lux Feininger) 9 Hannes Meyer at the Bauhaus, circa 1928 (anonymous photo)

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