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Taschen Basic Architecture

Bauhaus (Basic Art)

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Durante un fugaz periodo de catorce años intercalado entre dos guerras mundiales, la escuela de arte y diseño alemana Bauhaus cambió el aspecto de la modernidad. Con ideales utópicos para el futuro, la escuela fue pionera en la fusión del arte, la artesanía y la tecnología aplicada a la pintura, la escultura, el diseño, la arquitectura, el cine, la fotografía, los tejidos, la cerámica, el teatro y la instalación artística.

La Bauhaus fue fundada por Walter Gropius (1883-1969) como una apasionada comunidad y como un colectivo preocupado por la problemática social, y contó con Josef y Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt y Ludwig Mies van der Rohe entre sus miembros. En sus tres ubicaciones consecutivas, Weimar, Dessau y Berlín, la escuela fue testigo de un intercambio carismático y creativo entre profesores y estudiantes de diversos estilos y preferencias artísticas, pero unidos en su idealismo e interés por una obra de arte «total» que englobara diferentes prácticas y medios.

Este libro es un homenaje al atrevimiento e innovación del movimiento Bauhaus, pionero en el desarrollo del arte moderno y paradigma de la educación artística, en el que una total libertad de expresión creativa y de ideas vanguardistas dio lugar a creaciones hermosas y prácticas.

Magdalena Droste estudió historia del arte y literatura en Aquisgrán y Marburgo. Desde 1980 trabaja en el Bauhaus-Archiv de Berlín y desde 1997 es catedrática de historia del arte de la BTU Cottbus. Ha participado en numerosas exposiciones y publicaciones sobre artistas de la Bauhaus y ha escrito un gran número de artículos sobre el taller textil y el taller de muebles de la Bauhaus, así como sobre el arte y la artesanía como profesiones femeninas.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

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572 reviews164 followers
November 17, 2019
Ενδιαφέροντα κείμενα, ωραίες εικόνες, προσεγμένη έκδοση (γενικά), μέτρια μετάφραση. Κρίμα.
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September 21, 2024
it seems I generally find Taschen books disappointing, and this one was no exception; I don’t have a good sense of Bauhaus after reading; I can’t understand why it remains worth knowing about; is the influence simply downstream of the thing itself? is it simply because of the people beyond the thing itself? having read the book, I don’t have a good sense of why Bauhaus matters
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January 16, 2018
Interesting to compare with the other bauhaus book recently read (both gifts). The text is more serious and initially better but the translation seems to collapse as it goes on and it becomes a bit of a drag to read.
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July 24, 2020
Good foundational book about the Bauhaus and its cast of characters, and how the school and the people involved changed throughout its brief but momentous history.
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132 reviews
April 12, 2023
First of all, the edition of 2021 has a lot of typos!
I was underwhelmed by this book because I expected from a book about a school of design to talk more about the actual design, but it turned out to be almost entirely the description of the management of the school, the classes’ organization and different internal conflicts among the staff throughout the years of its existence. Of course, I still have learnt something about Bauhaus from this book, but the focus of it is definitely not what I would want it to be on: the design itself is only touched briefly. Overall, I would probably not recommend this book, unless you want to learn about the historical environment surrounding the school, rather than about the school of design itself.
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April 11, 2023
A good summary. Enough photos with enough text. Not overly detailed but not vague either. Towards the end the grammar fell apart in a few places. I learned a lot and now have a list of names to look up.
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19 reviews16 followers
March 16, 2019
An interesting summary of the movement, I just wish it was translated better.
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May 6, 2021
La mauvaise traduction gâche le plaisir de lire, malgré la bonne mise en page et les superbes photos.
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September 2, 2021
I enjoyed reading this book. It is a great overview of the Bauhaus's history with great artworks and pictures. I will definitely read her longer book.
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December 31, 2022
Nádherné spracovanie edície Taschen predchádza text, ktorý je pri najlepšej vôli statický. Inými slovami, dočítal som knihu, ktorá robila všetko preto, aby sa tak nestalo.
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