9780801855283

The Theater of the Bauhaus

Oskar Schlemmer; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Farkas Molnar

ISBN 10: 0801855284 / 0-8018-5528-4
ISBN 13: 9780801855283
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Softcover
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The Bauhaus movement was one of this century's most daring experiments in arts education, and its influence on architecture, design, and the visual arts is well known. Many of its most important ideas are revealed in Bauhaus writings about theatrical performance and performance spaces. Originally published in Germany in 1925--at the height of the Bauhaus movement's influence--The Theater of the Bauhaus collects writings from some of the movement's most important figures and describes a theater stripped of history, moralism, scenery, and, for that matter, narrative itself. The Bauhaus group believed traditional theater to be little more than a vehicle for propaganda, with its "peep show stage" separating spectators from performers. They rejected as well the theater of ridicule and satire practiced by the Dadaists and Expressionists.In place of both traditional drama and the avant-garde that lampooned it, Oskar Schlemmer and his Bauhaus associates created an abstract theater of movement, color, light, form, and soundlanguage would be added later, once the stage had been purged of its "literary encumbrance." They believed that humanity's essential nature--freed from history, tradition, class, and nationality--would find expression in theatrical works that incorporated pantomime, masks, dance, and acrobatics. Contents: Introduction Walter Gropius ı Man and Art Figure Oskar Schlemmer ı Theater, Circus, Variety Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ı U-Theater Farkas Molnır ı Theater (Bıhne) Oskar Schlemmer ı Translator's Note Arthur S. Wensinger


 

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Book Description: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1996. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good+. Three pgs only have some highlighting. Previous owner's name on half-title pg. Spine is tight; pgs are otherwise unmarked. Nice, sturdy copy. he Bauhaus movement was one of this century's most daring experiments in arts education, and its influence on architecture, design, and the visual arts is well known. Many of its most important ideas are revealed in Bauhaus writings about theatrical performance and performance spaces. Originally published in Germany in 1925--at the height of the Bauhaus movement's influence--The Theater of the Bauhaus collects writings from some of the movement's most important figures and describes a theater stripped of history, moralism, scenery, and, for that matter, narrative itself. The Bauhaus group believed traditional theater to be little more than a vehicle for propaganda, with its "peep show stage" separating spectators from performers. They rejected as well the theater of ridicule and satire practiced by the Dadaists and Expressionists.In place of both traditional drama and the avant-garde that lampooned it, Oskar Schlemmer and his Bauhaus associates created an abstract theater of movement, color, light, form, and soundlanguage would be added later, once the stage had been purged of its "literary encumbrance." They believed that humanity's essential nature--freed from history, tradition, class, and nationality--would find expression in theatrical works that incorporated pantomime, masks, dance, and acrobatics. Contents: Introduction Walter Gropius " Man and Art Figure Oskar Schlemmer " Theater, Circus, Variety Laszlo Moholy-Nagy " U-Theater Farkas Molnár " Theater (Bühne) Oskar Schlemmer " Translator's Note Arthur S. Wensinger. Bookseller Inventory # 017374

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