The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919-1936

by Margret Kentgens-Craig

Book Overview

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.

The Bauhaus school 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611716
• ISBN13: 9780262611718
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher