Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art

Description:

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.

subjects: Design, history,  Design,  History,  Histoire,  ART,  Modern (late 19th Century to 1945),  Techniques,  Drawing,  Bauhaus,  Graphic arts,  Visual communication,  Photography,  Fotografie,  Ästhetik,  Rezeption,  Bild,  Materialität