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Informationen zum Autor Laura A. Frahm Klappentext "Film by Design considers visual media, and particularly film, as a crucial link in the Bauhaus's visionary pursuit of integrating art and technology"-- Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive history in English of film at the Bauhaus, exploring practices that experimented with film as an adaptable, elastic “polymedium .” With Design in Motion , Laura Frahm proposes an alternate history of the Bauhaus—one in which visual media, and film in particular, are crucial to the Bauhaus’s visionary pursuit of integrating art and technology. In the first comprehensive examination in English of film at the Bauhaus, Frahm shows that experimentation with film spanned a range of Bauhaus practices, from textiles and typography to stage and exhibition design. Indeed, Bauhausler deployed film as an adaptable, elastic “polymedium,” malleable in shape and form, unfolding and refracting into multiple material, aesthetic, and philosophical directions. Frahm shows how the encounter with film imbued the Bauhaus of the 1920s and early 1930s with a flexible notion of design, infusing painting with temporal concepts, sculptures with moving forms, photographs with sequential aesthetics, architectural designs with a choreography of movement. Frahm considers, among other things, student works that explored light and the transparent features of celluloid and cellophane; weaving practices that incorporate cellophane; experimental films, social documentaries, and critical reportage by Bauhaus women; and the proliferation of film strips in posters, book covers, and other typographic work. Viewing the Bauhaus’s engagement with film through a media-theoretic lens, Frahm shows how film became a medium for “design in motion.” Movement and process, rather than stability and fixity, become the defining characteristics of Bauhaus educational, aesthetic, and philosophical ethos. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword xi Prologue xiii Introduction: The Promises of Film 1 1 "Film, Film, Film!": Motion Studies on Bauhaus Screens 21 2 The Cinema, the Laboratory, the Workshop: Situating Film at the Bauhaus 57 3 Malleable Materials: Celluloid and Cellophane in the Preliminary Course 79 4 Synesthetic Architectures: On Lightplays, Film Projection, and Sensory Stages 109 5 Textile Screens: On Weaving and Cellophane 145 6 Woman with a Camera: Body, Gender, and Visual Media 171 7 Modules in Motion: Filmstrips across the Bauhaus 203 8 Toward the Process Image: On the Cinematic Logic of Exhibition Design 235 Epilogue: Variations on a Polymedium 281 Notes 301 Bibliography 351 Index 383...
