Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture: The First Six Exercises

ZAR-ADUSHT HA'NISH, OTTOMAN

ISBN 10: 0949004197 / ISBN 13: 9780949004192

Published by Open Editions and the Stanley Picker Gallery, 2012

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Softcovers. "Jointly commissioned by Open Editions (London) and the Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University). "Mazdaznan Health and Breath Culture. was first published in 1902 by The Sun-Worshiper Publishing Co. of Chicago in 1914. The source text for this new version. was published in 1940 by the Mazdaznan Library. Birkdale, Lancashire." -- 'A note on the text and illustrations', following p. 43 (i). "This book explores the intimate relationship between Mazdaznan, Johannes Itten and the Vorkurs (Preliminary or Foundation Course) at the Bauhaus, Weimar. It is a practical guide to performing the exercises that Itten taught at the Bauhaus and a celebration of a moment of mysticism at the heart of Modernism. [It] has been newly illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with drawings of current Foundation [art] students [at Kingston University, Surrey] demonstrating the exercises. It is followed by a selection of found texts and images that go some way to explaining the beliefs and history of Mazdaznan." -- back cover. Bound as two pamphlets with separate page numbering and sewn with different colour threads (blue and yellow), within a single cover. 1st thus 43pp + 67pp Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 6561

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture: The First...

Publisher: Open Editions and the Stanley Picker Gallery

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture explores the close relationship between Mazdaznan, Johannes Itten and the Foundation Course at the Bauhaus. Founded by the extraordinary Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish in Chicago at the start of the twentieth century, Mazdaznan was a religion and way of life. It is said that Edison named the first lightbulb Mazda in his honor and that Henry Ford attributed the dawn of the motor-age to Ha’nish’s influence. The Swiss artist and teacher Johannes Itten was a devout Mazdaznan and its exercises were an essential part of his courses at the Bauhaus. Health & Breath Culture is a practical guide to performing the exercises as taught by Itten. It is newly illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with drawings of current Foundation students demonstrating the exercises. It is followed by a selection of found texts and images that elucidate the beliefs and history of Mazdaznan.