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Bauhaus culture : from Weimar to the Cold War / Kathleen James-Chakraborty, editor. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006. - xix, 246 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.

Wilhelmine precedents for the Bauhaus : Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian state, and the German Werkbund / John V. Maciuika -- Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius : between avoidance and imitation / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- From metaphysics to material culture : painting and photography at the Bauhaus / Rose Carol Washton Long -- Architecture, building, and the Bauhaus / Wallis Miller -- Bauhaus theater of human dolls / Juliet Koss -- Utopia for sale : the Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture / Frederic J. Schwartz -- Bauhaus architecture in the Third Reich / Winfried Nerdinger -- From isolationism to internationalism : American acceptance of the Bauhaus / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- The Bauhaus in Cold War Germany / Greg Castillo.

ISBN: 9780816646883 9780816646876 0816646880 0816646872

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Bauhaus--Influence.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art schools--Social aspects--Germany.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Art--Study and teaching--History--Germany--20th century.

LC Class. No.: N332.G33 / B4263 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 709.4309041 / B346