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Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices.

Eli, Eli is the poetry of a mother's grief at the loss of her young child and a love song to the son who was lost too soon. The writing is frank and poignant, full of a fierce and vulnerable strength. It is a poetry where many readers will find their own griefs reflected, and where they may also find the determination to endure through sorrow into hope.

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices.

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Through the Eyes of a Child is the coming of age story of a young girl from the English Midlands whose life and family were suddenly plunged into WWII-changing them forever, as it did so many around the globe. At once a unique personal history and an introspective journey, an alternately poignant and amusing memoir, a heartfelt missive to ever-changing and often challenging times, it is dedicated to heightening the awareness that the legacy of...

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This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is author of Architecture since 1400 and Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War, both from Minnesota.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is author of Architecture since 1400 and Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War, both from Minnesota.

Erich Mendelsohn's buildings, erected throughout Germany between 1920 and 1932, epitomized architectural modernity for his countrymen. In this study, Kathleen James examines his department stores, office buildings and cinemas, the downtown counterparts to the famous housing projects built during the same years in Frankfurt and Berlin. Demonstrating the degree to which their dynamic presence stemmed from Mendelsohn's attention to their consumer...

Dominikus Böhm, in dessen 50. Todesjahr diese Monografie erscheint, gilt - neben Rudolf Schwarz - als bedeutendster deutscher Kirchenbaumeister des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Anstoß für sein gebautes Werk kam aus der liturgischen Reformbewegung in der katholischen Kirche, die aus passiven Gottesdienstbesuchern aktive Teilnehmer des Geschehens machen wollte. Vier Jahrzehnte vor dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil schuf Böhm hierfür den architektonische...

Offering the first comprehensive training in the visual arts grounded in abstraction, the Bauhaus was the site of a dazzling range of influential experiments in painting, architecture, photography, industrial design, and even artistic education itself. Three-quarters of a century later, the "look" of the new remains indebted to the Bauhaus and its equation of technology with modernism. Central to discussions of the relationships between art, i...

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).

You know when you have been to see somewhere interesting, beautiful, and exciting or all three? Or just very old and quite boring, but you had to go because it was a school trip? While you were there, did you ever catch sight of a bluish-colored ghost? Let's get something straight here. Usually it would have been a well-known place because if it wasn't, they wouldn't have been there, and generally the being in question would have appeared to b...

You know when you have been to see somewhere interesting, beautiful, and exciting or all three? Or just very old and quite boring, but you had to go because it was a school trip? While you were there, did you ever catch sight of a bluish-colored ghost? Let's get something straight here. Usually it would have been a well-known place because if it wasn't, they wouldn't have been there, and generally the being in question would have appeared to b...

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The early twenty-first century is witnessing a paradigm shift across the humanities away from an obsession with language and towards an engagement with the way in which physical space is imagined. This book showcases the impact of that shift upon the work of diverse disciplines. Applying insights from architecture and geography, which have long addressed space, to disciplines that have traditionally focused upon images and language, the contri...

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is the author of German Architecture for a Mass Audience and Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism and the editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minnesota, 2006).