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  • Bauhaus and America : experiments in light and movement / director, Hermann Arnhold ; editor, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Hermann Arnhold ; translated from the German, Amy Klement ; translated from the French, Vanessa Wildenstein
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Bauhaus and America : experiments in light and movement / director, Hermann Arnhold ; editor, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Hermann Arnhold ; translated from the German, Amy Klement ; translated from the French, Vanessa Wildenstein

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Notes
Translation of: Bauhaus und Amerika : Experimente in Licht und Bewegung
Catalog of an exhibition held at LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, November 9, 2018-March 10, 2019.--Colophon.
Contents
A word from the patron / Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen -- A word from the Board of Trustees / Milena Karabaic, Barbara Rüschoff-Parzinger, Hildegard Kaluza -- Words to welcome / Matthias Löb, Barbara Rüschoff-Parzinger -- Foreword / Hermann Arnhold -- "A laboratory for experiment" : the reception and appropriation of Bauhaus education in the United States / Kristin Bartels -- "I sculpt light" : visions of the classic avant-garde / Ulrike Gärtner -- Attempts to move light, color, forms, bodies, and spaces : on the stage experiments at the Bauhaus / Torsten Blume -- The dazzled eye : Josef Albers and American op art / Tanja Pirsig-Marshall -- Light, abstraction, experimentation : the teaching and practice of photographt at Chicago's new Bauhaus / Julie Jones -- Rhythm and light : absolute film in Germany and the United States / Kristin Bartels -- Catalogue. The Bauhaus stage : a workshop for innovations. The mechanical stage : designs by Wassily Kandinsky, Xanti Schawinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, and Andor Wieninger / Eline van Dijk -- Art in movement : dance and performance art. Art as performance / Gail B. Kirkpatrick ; Painting in motion : color and light. Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack's Farbenlichtspiele and Lázló Moholy-Nagy's Licht-Raum-Modulator : photography, film, theater, light sculpture / Andreas Hapkemeyer ; The interaction of color : op art. Josef Albers : structural constellation and variant of related / Jeanette Redensek ; The corporeality of light : light art. "This century belongs to light!" : insights into the light art of the twentieth century / Marijke Lukowicz ; Experiment : photography. Photograms by Lázló Maholy-Nagy and György Kepes / Márton Orosz -- Biographies
Summary
100 Years of the Bauhaus: On the occasion of the anniversary, the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster is presenting the exhibition 'Bauhaus and America'. Starting from the significance of the Bauhaus and, in particular, the Bauhaus stage as an interdisciplinary laboratory for experiments with light and movement, the diverse artistic examinations of light and movement -- from light and kinetic art, to experimental film, to dance and performance art -- by former Bauhaus members and Americans are addressed for the first time. The accompanying publication documents these fascinating examinations and provides in-depth insight into art life in America as influenced by the Bauhaus after 1945. Exhibition: LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany (09.11.2018-10.03.2019).
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2018
20th century
translator
Klement, Amy
WIldenstein, Vanessa
curator
Arnhold, Hermann
host institution
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
Subject
Bauhaus
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Physical description
272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Place
United States
Germany
Title
Experiments in light and movement
Topic
Arts, German
Arts, American--German influences
Performing arts
Light art--History
Record ID
siris_sil_1103244
Usage
CC0

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