Wingler, Hans M.MareMagnum
The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berling, Chicago
Massive book, weighing almost 11 pounds. 10 1/8"w x 14 1/8"h. 654 pages. White cloth cover shows some discoloration and smudges, mostly on spine. Slipcase is a bit frayed at top edge. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. "Documents in Bauhaus are taken from a wide array of sources?public manifestos, private letters, internal memoranda, jotted-down conversations, minutes of board and faculty meetings, sketches and schemata, excerpts from speeches and books, newspaper and magazine articles, Nazi polemics, official German government documents, court proceedings, budgets, and curricula. The illustrations include architectural plans and realizations, craft and industrial model designs (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, stained glass, typography, wallpaper), sculpture, paintings, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, posters, programs, advertising brochures, stage settings, and formal portraits of such Bauhaus masters as Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, L?szl? Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Hebert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe." [Publisher]
Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Seattle, US254,98 €
