This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.
Acknowledgements; 1.Introduction;
2. Orienting The New Woman: Breuers
Furniture and Complex Gender Expressivity at the Haus Am Horn;
3. Optical
Improvisations: Jazz, Film and Moholy-Nagys Light Prop for an Electric Stage
Domestic Interventions: Brandts "Mediatized" Objects and Self-Portrait
Photographs;
5. "Taking Apart" The Sukiya: The Yamawakis Postwar Tokyo Home'
6. Vertigo and Kepess Light Art in 1950s America;
7. Contemporary Art,
Architecture and Media Recovering Material Space
Edit Toth is Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
