Haunted Bauhaus: occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics
Elizabeth Otto
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
- Copyright:
- ©2019
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- Summary:
- The Bauhaus (1919-1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In 'Haunted Bauhaus', art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. With 'Haunted Bauhaus', Otto not only expands our knowledge of a foundational movement of modern art, architecture, and design, she also provides the first sustained investigation of the irrational and the unconventional currents swirling behind the Bauhaus's signature sleek surfaces and austere structures.
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Bauhaus utopias
- Bauhaus spirits
- New visions of the artist: the artist-engineer and shadow masculinity
- Bauhaus femininities in transformation
- Queer Bauhaus
- Red Bauhaus, Brown Bauhaus.
- Author/Creator:
- Otto, Elizabeth, 1970- , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-272) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- N332.G3 O88 2019
- ISBNs:
- 0262043297 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
9780262043298 (hardcover, alkaline paper) - Other Standard Numbers:
- [Unknown Type]: 16052834
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2019007765
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1088600947