Search Results: Movements / Bauhaus from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Cloth, 278 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean text. Light dust spotting/top edge. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. CONTENTS: The revolution in style; The new architecture and the vision of a new society; The controversy over the Bauhaus; The new architecture in the service of society; The debate over the new architecture; The new architecture and National Socialism; The evolution of architectural control under the Nazi regime; Nazi architecture. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London and New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1984. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing estates to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world. Setting everything against a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind its conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers--artists as eminent as Paul Klee and Kandinsky--and the daily lives of the students. Everything is described with the aid, wherever possible, of the words of those who were there at the time." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Aims and ambitions; Art, crafts, architecture and the academies; Art education reformed; The founder; Problems; The first… Read More

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… Read More

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1990. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Text in English. First published, 1988. Firm binding, creased spine. Smudge/foreedge. Clean inside copy. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule f r Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. / The author: Magdalena… Read More

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1975. 224 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. First published 1938. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Age toning. Stated First paperback edition. CONTENTS: Preface, by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; The background of the Bauhaus, by Alexander Dorner; Walter Gropius: biographical note; Weimar Bauhaus 1919-1925; The theory and organization of the Bauhaus, by Walter Gropius (Weimar, 1923); Preliminary course: Itten; Klee's course; Kandinsky's course; Color experiments; Carpentry workshop; Stained glass workshop; Pottery workshop; Metal workshop; Weaving workshop; Stage workshop; Wall-painting workshop; Display design; Architecture; Typography and layout; the Bauhaus Press Weimar Exhibition, 1923; Extracurricular activities; Preliminary course: Moholy-Nagy; Preliminary course: Albers; Opposition to the Bauhaus; Press comments, 1923-32; The Bauhaus quits Weimar: a fresh start at Dessau, April 1925; Dessau Bauhaus 1925-1928; Bauhaus… Read More

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1990. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Text in English. First published, 1988. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule f r Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. / The author: Magdalena Droste studied art history and… Read More

London: Conran Octopus, 1992. Cloth, 328 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean text. Half-title page lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Curt Valentin, 1950. [16] pages, illustrations; 19 cm. Edition of 1500 copies. First published in Fontaine (Paris) 1946 and Le Plaisir de Peindre, La Diane Francaise (Paris), 1950. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. Collectible.

New York: Bantam Books, 1999. 111 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2005. xxvi, 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Co-published with the Denver Art Museum. Tight, clean copy. Spine bumped at the crown. Another copy available. "Chanzit explores Herbert Bayer's stunning artistic legacy, which includes painting, photography, typography, sculpture, architecture, exhibition design, and graphic design. Arriving in the U.S. in the late 1930s, German artist Herbert Bayer brought his understanding of Bauhaus principles to a variety of projects. Illustrated throughout with artistic reproductions, this volume evaluates his contributions to American art and design." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus; Bayer's post-Bauhaus years in Europe, 1928-1938; Early painting; The relationship between the fine arts and commercial work in Herbert Bayer's oeuvre; Bayer's life in America; Graphic design and typography; Exhibition design; Environmental design; Corporate projects; The anthologies. . Paperback.… Read More

Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2005. xxvi, 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Co-published with the Denver Art Museum. Tight, clean copy. "Chanzit explores Herbert Bayer's stunning artistic legacy, which includes painting, photography, typography, sculpture, architecture, exhibition design, and graphic design. Arriving in the U.S. in the late 1930s, German artist Herbert Bayer brought his understanding of Bauhaus principles to a variety of projects. Illustrated throughout with artistic reproductions, this volume evaluates his contributions to American art and design." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus; Bayer's post-Bauhaus years in Europe, 1928-1938; Early painting; The relationship between the fine arts and commercial work in Herbert Bayer's oeuvre; Bayer's life in America; Graphic design and typography; Exhibition design; Environmental design; Corporate projects; The anthologies. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. Cloth, 143 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Spoof on modernist architecture from the master of New Journalism.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. xv, 304 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Moderate edgewear to wraps/nicked on foreedge. Clean inside copy.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1947. 39 pages, illustrations, portraits; 26 cm. Cover title: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Memorial. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation presents a survey of the artist's paintings and plastics at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York City, May 15th to July 10th, 1947. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light soiling & edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Cologne: Taschen, 1998. 237 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Preface; "What's in a name?"; The European Modernists (1919-1933); Emerging Internationalism; Defining the International style (1931-1932); A synthesis of European modernism; Early Internationalists (1933-1945); The shift of focus to America; Corporate Internationalism (1929-1960); The skyscraper; image of modernity; Later modernists (1945-1965); The changing milieu; Global manifestations (1936-1966); Modernism outside America and Europe.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2006. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with a tiny puncture/front cover, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Josef Albers: To Open Eyes takes the reader through Albers's life in teaching - from his first years at the pioneering but politically fraught Bauhaus; to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College; and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University's newly restructured Department of Design. Throughout his forty years in education, Albers influenced everyone he encountered not, as one former student says, as a 'tour guide of the world of art, but rather as a living embodiment of that world.'" - Publisher. CONTENTS: I: Teaching design: a short history of Josef… Read More

New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1966. [48] pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Errata slip laid in. Exhibition held at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, April to May 1966. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1982. Leather, gilt, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 32 cm. Collector's Edition. Raised bands on spine, all edges gilt. Silk ribbon book mark. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

Paris: Terrail, 1999. 207 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Jean-Louis Ferrier's highly original interpretation offers us a new point of entrance into Paul Klee's playful, mysterious world. Of the artist's corpus of 8,926 works, 140 are illustrated here. Born into a family of musicians, Klee long hesitated between painting and the violin, and music remained a major source of inspiration. His quest to geometrize the subject and his work on materials, line and colour proved seminal. He began teaching at the Bauhaus in 1920, making a major contribution to the development of the visual arts. To this distinguished teaching career we owe his celebrated theoretical works, notably the Pedagogical Sketch Book." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1975. 96 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, foreedge lightly soiled. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.