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FEATURE: How the Bauhaus went west It only lasted 13 years, but the Bauhaus's influence on art, architecture and design remains enormous. As a new exhibition shows, Josef Albers, one of its leading figures, brought its ideas of modernism to an entire generation of American artists through his example and his teaching. Tom Rosenthal reports
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The 20th century was ripe with artistic movements and styles from
Cubism to Pop, from Art Nouveau, via Art Deco, to Post-Modernism. But
only one movement was institutional in character, gave itself its own
name rather than having one applied post hoc by critics and only one
had a long life and is indeed still with us. Bauhaus is that
movement, that style, that institution' one that had a beginning, a
middle, even a kind of apotheosis and, happily as yet, no end.
The Bauhaus was founde...
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A Bow to the Bauhaus's Lighter Side
The Washington Post
; With every skyscraper and cane-backed Breuer-style chair, modern design pays a debt to the Bauhaus. But colorless, boxy housing built on concrete slabs achieved more converts among architects and designers than with the general populace, which found modernism cold. Now, an exhibition at London's
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The Bauhaus: Shaping a school and a legend
International Herald Tribune
; Alice Rawsthorn The New York Times Media Group International Herald Tribune 12-03-2007 The Bauhaus: Shaping a school and a legend Byline: Alice Rawsthorn The New York Times Media Group Edition: 1 Section: FEATURES MIDDLESBROUGH, England -- It was, as the young Philip Johnson wrote excitedly to his
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Revisioning the Bauhaus.
Interior Design
; The latest Bauhaus exhibition to be mounted in these parts opened at the American Craft Museum in Manhattan early this summer (it will close on October 9th). It is not the largest show on the Bauhaus ever mounted (the one at MoMA, across the street from the American Craft Museum, and designed by
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The first couple of modern design; She worked in textiles, he in paint and glass, but Anni and Josef Albers shared a Bauhaus sensibility.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- Long before it was considered cool to create home decor from cast-off industrial products, design alchemists Josef and Anni Albers elevated the simplest materials to high status. Glass, steel, wood, silk, and wool in
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Britain and the Bauhaus: Alan Powers challenges the view that the reception of the Bauhaus in 1930s Britain went little futher than providing temporary shelter for some of its teachers. Common roots with the Bauhaus in the Arts and Crafts movement helps to explain a lively British interest in the school's ideals, among not only architects but also designers--and even puppeteers.(Essay)
Apollo
; There is a familiar story about Britain and the Bauhaus that is still told today. (1) A backward island, bereft of modernism, entertains almost unawares a handful of the world's most progressive designers, but fails to find them adequate employment, so that they move on to the USA. When applied to
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