Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition held at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, 6 December 2013-21 April 2014, at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway, 22 May-21 September 2014, and at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 15 October 2014-11 January 2015. Catalogue is accompanied by a reproduction of the magazine Bauhaus 3, 1927 (editors: Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer). Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached). Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"In 1921, Walter Gropius founded a theater workshop at the Bauhaus. It conducted new research and experiments on the relationship between humans and technology. The central protagonists Lothar Schreyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholoy-Nagy investigated the issues of mechanization, machine industrialization, and rationalization. They sought a new, meaningful relationship with the dynamized, increasingly technically animated environment. In their stage laboratory, they developed abstract motion studies, designed atmosphere machines, and built theater apparatus. They also organized the famous Bauhaus celebrations, where they staged themselves as a collective of 'new humans.' For the first time, an exhibition and a catalog with sketches, drawings, photographs as well as films, figurines, costumes, models, and apparatus are now devoted to the experiments and concepts of the legendary Bauhaus Stage"--Publisher's website.
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