Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective

Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that continue to resonate with viewers around the world today. The story of the Bauhaus has usually been kept narrow, localised to its original time and place and associated with only a few famous men such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective bursts the bounds of this slim history by revealing fresh Bauhaus faces: Forty-five Bauhaus women unjustifiably forgotten by most history books. This book also widens the lens to reveal how the Bauhaus drew women from many parts of Europe and beyond, and how, through these cosmopolitan female designers, artists and architects, it sent the Bauhaus message out into the world and to a global audience.>

About the author

Elizabeth Otto is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at The State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published widely on gender issues in Germany’s visual culture of the 1920s and 1930s, especially at the Bauhaus. Her books include Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt and the co-edited collections Passages of Exile and the New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film.Patrick Rössler is Chair of Media & Communication Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has published extensively on the history of magazines, including Viewing our Life and Times (2006), The Bauhaus at the Newsstand (2009), Iconic Magazines (2016) and Illustrated Magazine of the Times (2019). He has curated exhibitions on magazine design in Germany, the U.S., Japan, and France.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Roessler, Elizabeth Otto, Otto Elizabeth, Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Roessler, Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Rössler, Patrick Rössler
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781912217960
• ISBN: 978-1-912217-96-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 221 mm x 282 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Bauhaus, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Women Artists, History of art / art & design styles, history of design, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of Architecture, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls