Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School

by Elizabeth Otto

Book Overview

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501344773
• ISBN13: 9781501344770
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"