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    Bauhaus bodies : gender, sexuality, and body culture in modernism's legendary art school / edited by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler.

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    • Title:Bauhaus bodies : gender, sexuality, and body culture in modernism's legendary art school / edited by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Otto, Elizabeth, 1970- editor.
      Rössler, Patrick, editor.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
      ©2019

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Bauhaus.
      Human body (Philosophy)--Germany.
      Women in higher education--Germany.
      Art--Study and teaching (Higher)--Germany--History--20th century.
    • Description:xl, 345 pages,12 pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Series:Visual cultures and German contexts.
    • 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781501344770 hardcover alkaline paper
      1501344773 hardcover alkaline paper
      9781501344787 paperback alkaline paper
      1501344781 paperback alkaline paper
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Bauhaus in Weimar and Beyond: Gendered Bodies and the Search for Utopia
      1. Soft Skills and Hard Facts: A Systematic Assessment of the Inclusion of Women at the Bauhaus / Anke Blumm
      2. "Bodies Drilled in Freedom": Nudity, Body Culture, and Classical Gymnastics at the Early Bauhaus / Ute Ackermann
      3. Spiritual Enhancement of the Body: Johannes Itten, Gertrud Grunow, and Mazdaznan at the Early Bauhaus / Linn Burchert
      4. Utopias of a New Society: Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and the Loheland and Schwarzerden Women's Communes / Sandra Neugartner
      5. Invisible Bodies and Empty Spaces: Notes on Gender at the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition / Paul Monty Paret
      pt. II New Unity? Technologies and Techniques of Gender
      6. Clothing Bauhaus Bodies / Kathleen James-Chakraborty
      7. Paul Klee and the New Woman Dancer: Gret Palucca, Karla Grosch, and the Gendering of Constructivism / Susan Funkenstein
      8. Ise Gropius: "Everyone Here Calls me Frau Bauhaus" / Mercedes Valdivieso
      9. Dorte Helm, Margaret Leiteritz, and Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp: Rare Women of the Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop / Morgan Ridler
      10. Androgyny in Oskar Schlemmer's Figural Art / Deborah Ascher Barnstone
      pt. III Identities and Ideologies in Bauhaus Photography and New Media
      11. Disorder or Subordination? On Gender Relations in Bauhaus Photographs / Burcu Dogramaci
      12. Bauhaus Double Portraits / Karen Koehler
      13. "A School for Becoming Human": The Socialist Humanism of Irene Bluhova's Bauhaus Photographs / Julia Secklehner
      14. Breuer's New Women / Jordan Troeller.
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