{"product_id":"bauhaus-bodies-9781501344787","title":"Bauhaus Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eBauhaus Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBauhaus Bodies \u003c\/i\u003ewill 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eBauhaus Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e] presents us with a picture of the Bauhaus that is anything but remote. * Journal of Design History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBauhaus Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e addresses gender issues more broadly, with fourteen essays by established and newer scholars on body culture, spirituality, dance, androgyny, clothing, experimental photography, and the unsung contributions of Bauhaus wives and female wall painters. * Woman's Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003eWhether for their subsequently unrecognized collaborations with husbands or their seemingly unseen service labor, women shaped Bauhaus aesthetics and are still less known than the men even today. [This] anthology examines the famous architecture and design school beyond its lily-white reputation. * Deutschlandfunk (Bloomsbury Translation) *\u003cbr\u003eDispensing with the usual focus on a monolithic school and its leaders, this collection will prove an indispensable resource for investigating the Bauhaus' immediate social impact, historical context, and far-reaching historical implications. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBauhaus Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e provides a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the Bauhaus and its community by tackling a vital set of issues surrounding the body, gender, and sexuality in modernism. Offering cutting-edge research and exceptional insight, this collection of essays brings together wide-ranging materials across a series of topics related to the politics and cultures of the body, explicating the Bauhaus in greater depth and with compelling nuance. Illustrating the crucial role of embodied experience and new experiments in living, \u003ci\u003eBauhaus Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable guide to the school’s wider impact on society, the arts, identity, body politics, health and physical culture, movement and space, and in many other social and cultural spheres. * Robin Schuldenfrei, Katja and Nicolai Tangen Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWhat role did the body play at the Bauhaus? The essays in this volume offer answers to that question by offering a panorama of perspectives, from Ise Gropius to the known and unknown female students at the school. The body and gender played definitive roles in an institution that was largely run by men and notions of 'rationalized modernism'. This is the first anthology to demonstrate how one-sided that latter perspective is, which it does by uncovering a number of previously overlooked aspects, such as the role of gymnastics in the school’s foundation course and the instrumental role played by Ise Gropius in the everyday administration of the institution. * Magdalena Droste, former Professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Images Introduction: Embodying the Bauhaus  \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart I: The Bauhaus in Weimar and Beyond: Gendered Bodies and the Search for Utopia \u003c\/b\u003e  1. Soft Skills and Hard Facts: A Systematic Overview of Bauhaus Women’s Presence and Roles  \u003ci\u003ePatrick Rössler and Anke Blümm (Bauhaus Museum, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Bodies Drilled in Freedom: Nudity, Body Culture, and Classical Gymnastics at the Weimar Bauhaus \u003ci\u003eUte Ackermann (Bauhaus Museum, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. The Spiritual Enhancement of the Body: Johannes Itten, Gertrud Grunow, and Mazdaznan at the Early Bauhaus \u003ci\u003eLinn Burchert (Humboldt University, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Utopias of a New Society: Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy, and the Loheland and Schwarzerden Women’s Communes \u003ci\u003eSandra Neugärtner (Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Science, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Invisible Bodies and Empty Spaces: Notes on Gender at the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition \u003ci\u003ePaul Monty Paret (University of Utah, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart II: A New Unity? Technologies and Techniques of Gender\u003c\/b\u003e  6. Clothing Bauhaus Bodies \u003ci\u003eKathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Paul Klee and the New Woman Dancer: Gret Palucca, Karla Grosch, and the Gendering of Constructivism \u003ci\u003eSusan Funkenstein (University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Ise Gropius: “Everyone Here Calls me ‘Frau Bauhaus’!” \u003ci\u003eMercedes Valdivieso (University of Lleida, Spain)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Dörte Helm, Margaret Leiteritz, and Lou Scheper–Berkenkamp: Rare Women of the Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop \u003ci\u003eMorgan Ridler (Montclair State University and Westchester Community College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  10. Androgyny in Oskar Schlemmer’s Figural Art \u003ci\u003eDeborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III: Identities and Ideologies in Bauhaus Photography and New Media \u003c\/b\u003e  11. Disorder or Subordination? On Gender Relations in Bauhaus Photographs \u003ci\u003eBurcu Dogramaci (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Bauhaus Double Portraits \u003ci\u003eKaren Koehler (Hampshire College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. “A School for Becoming Human”: The Socialist Humanism of Irene Blühová’s Bauhaus Photographs \u003ci\u003eJulia Secklehner (Courtauld Institute of Art in London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Marcel Breuer and the Theatrical Interior \u003ci\u003eJordan Troeller (Harvard University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   List of Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409311768919,"sku":"9781501344787","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501344787.jpg?v=1730506377","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bauhaus-bodies-9781501344787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}