Bauhaus bodies : gender, sexuality, and body culture in modernism's legendary art school

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019 and ©2019
Subject:: Bauhaus
Human body (Philosophy) - Germany
Women in higher education - Germany
Art - Study and teaching (Higher) - Germany - History - 20th century
Contributor:: Otto, Elizabeth, editor
Rössler, Patrick, editor
ISBN:: 9781501344770, 1501344773, 9781501344787, and 1501344781
Series:: Visual cultures and German contexts
Description:: xl, 345 pages,12 pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: Introduction: Embodying the Bauhaus / Elizabeth Otto -- part 1. The Bauhaus in Weimar and beyond: gendered bodies and the search for utopia. Soft skills and hard facts: a systematic assessment of inclusion of women at the Bauhaus / Patrick Rössler and Anke Blümm -- "Bodies drilled in freedom": nudity, body culture, and classical gymnastics in the early Bauhaus / Ute Ackermann -- The spiritual enhancement of the body: Johannes Itten, Gertrud Grunow, and Mazdaznan at the early Bauhaus / Linn Burchert -- Utopias of a new society: Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy, and the Loheland and Schwarzerden Women's Communes / Sandra Neugärtner -- Invisible bodies and empty spaces: notes on gender at the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition / Paul Monty Paret -- part 2. A new unity? Technologies and techniques of gender. Clothing Bauhaus bodies / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- Paul Klee and the new woman dancer: Gret Palucca, Karla Grosch, and the gendering of constructivism / Susan Funkenstein -- Ise Gropius: "Everyone here calls me 'Frau Bauhaus'!" / Mercedes Valdivieso -- Dörte Helm, Margaret Leiteritz, and Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp: rare women of the Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop / Morgan Ridler -- Androgyny in Oskar Schlemmer's figural art / Deborah Ascher Barnstone -- part 3. Identities and ideologies in Bauhaus photography and new media. Disorder or subordination? On gender relations in bauhaus photographs / Burcu Dogramaci -- Bauhaus double portraits / Karen Koehler -- "A school for becoming human": the socialist humanism of Irene Blühová's Bauhaus photographs / Julia Secklehner -- Breuer's new women / Jordan Troeller -- Contributors
Summary:: A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular. In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender. Written to appeal to students, scholars, and the broad public, Bauhaus Bodies will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern art, architecture, design history, and gender studies; it will define conversations and debates during the 2019 centenary of the Bauhaus's founding and beyond
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: N332.G33 B42615 2019
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