Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Kentgens-Craig Margret The Bauhaus and America First Contacts 1919-1936 on EtoBox?

Kentgens-Craig Margret The Bauhaus and America First Contacts 1919-1936 by Margret Kentgens-Craig is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kentgens-Craig Margret The Bauhaus and America First Contacts 1919-1936 about?

"The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar in 1919 by the German architect Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932, and was dissolved in 1933 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe under political duress. Although it existed for a mere fourteen years and boasted fewer than 1,300 students, its influence is felt throughout the world in numerous buildings, artworks, objects, concepts, and curricula."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Who reads Kentgens-Craig Margret The Bauhaus and America First Contacts 1919-1936?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Margret Kentgens-Craig
Publisher
MIT Press (MA)
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262277037
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Art, History, Architecture

Other editions & translations

More by Margret Kentgens-Craig

Browse all works by Margret Kentgens-Craig

Similar books