Konst- & designstilar: modernism & Bauhaus

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus …

Explores how the function, norms, and meaning of artists’ names in Chinese modernity have been misunderstood.   Challenging contemporary procedures for establishing attribution, …

Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where they settled following the Nazi's …

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of …

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "e;artificial darkness"e; has been overlooked-until now. In fact, …

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austrian avant-garde while also …

'Gripping' - Economist 'A fascinating exposé' - Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks 'Path-breaking and brilliant' - Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture and …

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, …

Ornementation usuelle de toutes les epoques dans les arts industriels et en architecture, par Rodolphe Pfnor, .... 1re annee. 1866-1867Date de l'edition originale: 1866-1868Ce …

The monochrome - a single colour of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas - remains one of the more contentious modernist artistic inventions. But whilst the manufacture of …