[I] Themes : Foundations and consequences : Bauhaus: history -- Bauhaus: Bauhaus philosophy: cultural critique and social utopia -- The Bauhaus and the Weimar Republic: struggles for political and cultural hegemony -- The Bauhaus and National Socialism: a dark chapter of modernism -- The Bauhaus in the German Democratic Republic: between formalism and pragmatism -- Bauhaus in the Federal Republic of Germany: a privileged legacy from Weimar -- The State Building College in Weimar: a "Gropius Bauhaus without Gropius?" -- Black Mountain College, NC -- New Bauhaus and School of Design, Chicago -- The Institute of Design, Ulm -- Daily life : The Bauhaus and the world of technology: work on industrial culture? -- Body concepts of the modernists at the Bauhaus -- Women at the Bauhaus: a myth of emancipation -- The Bauhaus: an intimate portrait -- Mazdaznan at the Bauhaus: the artist as savior -- Bauhaus parties: histrionics between eccentric dancing and animal drama -- Non-stop music: a brief musical history of the Bauhaus -- The self-portrait: photography as the trigger of reflected perception -- Free painting at the Bauhaus -- "Actually they're all crazy at the Bauhaus": an anthology of quotations -- [II] Work : Personalities : The three Bauhaus directors -- A review of personal life and work: Walter Gropius, the architect and founder of the Bauhaus -- The Bauhaus on the road to production cooperative: the director Hannes Meyer -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Dessau, Berlin, Chicago -- Johannes Itten : The "analysis of old masters" or the modernity of tradition -- Paul Klee : Playfully to the essentials -- Wassily Kandinsky : The paradoxical fame of a Bauhaus master: a prince among painters as an artist of theory -- Lyonel Feininger : Feininger's fugues: the domestic music of the masters as an expression of conservative sentiments? -- Oskar Schlemmer : Oskar Schlemmer's anthropological design -- László Moholy-Nagy : Synthesis and total artwork ; Moholy's art of film or why the Bauhaus stayed away from the cinema -- Josef Albers : Perceptive painting instead of op-art -- Marcel Breuer : "Openwork outlines sit lightly in the room": the tubular steel furniture of Marcel Breuer -- Herbert Bayer : Universal design for the National Socialist economy and state -- Gunta Stölzl : The token woman master.
[III] Preparatory teaching : The preliminary course under Johannes Itten: human education -- The preliminary course under László Moholy-Nagy: sensory competence -- The preliminary course under Josef Albers: creativity school -- Teaching by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee -- Teaching color at the Bauhaus -- Workshops : The joinery and fitting workshop : Bauhaus licenses and business -- Wood carving and stone sculpture: the plastic workshop : The Bauhaus and the ideas of the cathedral guilds ; "Plastic art ... what, at the Bauhaus!?!?": on sculpture at the Bauhaus -- The metal workshop : The law of line production -- The ceramics workshop : Japan and the Bauhaus pottery -- The wall painting workshop : The noble simplicity of the roll: the Bauhaus wallpapers -- The weaving workshop : The role of arts and crafts at the Bauhaus -- The Weimar art print workshop : Graphic editions -- The printing and advertising workshop : Exhibition design: a conglomeration of technique? ; From reserved gracefulness to the weariness of the rational: propaganda the day before yesterday, commercial publicity yesterday, and advertising today, tomorrow: communication ; Red bar, right angle: a synonym for the Bauhaus? -- Photography at the Bauhaus : Walter Peterhans: toward a subjective photography -- The Bauhaus theater group : Bauhaus masks: a loose liaison of dancers and artists ; The Bauhaus Theater after the Bauhaus Theater -- From the Bauhaus to housebuilding: architecture and the teaching of architecture at the Bauhaus : From the housing estate house to urban building: the architect, town builder and pedagog Ludwig Hilberseimer ; The brave new world: a house building review, a walk through an impossible Bauhaus city -- [IV] Theory : The Bauhaus as Medeleine: against retrospective prophecies -- Strange forces: three possible retrospective takes on a spatialized modernism -- Chalk and computers: principles of order in dynamic image-making -- [V] Documentation : Bauhaus chronology -- Selective bibliography -- Exhibitions at the Bauhaus -- Glossary -- Merchandising appendix.
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