St Marys Books

A Brand New Taschen Book. With more than 250 new photographs, classroom studies, architectural plans, and more from the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, this updated edition explores a transformative creative community with a focus on its locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin; its key personalities; and its principles of color, material, and geometry. This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum f�r Gestaltung in Berlin, the world�s largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Documents, studies, more than 250 new photographs, sketches, plans, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total� work of art. As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. Featured artists include Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Lilly Reich. Overall a very good Taschen Book.