The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919-1936
by Kentgens-Craig, Margret
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Cloth, xx, 283 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Revised edition of Bauhaus-Architektur: die Rezeption in Amerika, 1919-1936. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "After the Bauhaus's closing in 1933, many of its protagonists moved to the United States, where their acceptance had to be cultivated. In this book Margret Kentgens-Craig shows that the fame of the Bauhaus in America was the result not only of the inherent qualities of its concepts and products, but also of a unique congruence of cultural supply and demand, of a consistent flow of information, and of fine-tuned marketing. Thus the history of the American reception of the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s foreshadows the patterns of fame-making that became typical of the post-World War II art world." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Call for Rejuvenation in America; Dissemination of Bauhaus Ideas: Paths of Communication; Image of the Bauhaus as Received in America; Controversies Surrounding Bauhaus Architecture; Against the Odds: The Resolution of Contradictions; Arts Club of Chicago, Catalogue of the First Bauhaus Exhibition in the United States, March 1931; United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Walter Gropius File (Excerpts); United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe File (Excerpts). . 2nd. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919-1936
- Author
- Kentgens-Craig, Margret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 2nd
- ISBN 10
- 026211237X
- ISBN 13
- 9780262112376
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Architecture / History; Movements / Bauhaus;
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