Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments
IntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty
1. Wilhelmine Precedents for the Bauhaus: Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian State, and the German WerkbundJohn V. Maciuika
2. Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius: Between Avoidance and ImitationKathleen James-Chakraborty
3. From Metaphysics to Material Culture: Painting and Photography at the BauhausRose-Carol Washton Long
4. Architecture, Building, and the BauhausWallis Miller
5. Bauhaus Theater of Human DollsJuliet Koss
6. Utopia for Sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany’s Consumer CultureFrederic J. Schwartz
7. Bauhaus Architecture in the Third ReichWinfried Nerdinger
8. From Isolationism to Internationalism: American Acceptance of the Bauhaus Kathleen James-Chakraborty
9. The Bauhaus in Cold War GermanyGreg Castillo
NotesSelect BibliographyContributorsIndex
Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).