Bauhaus – the school that became the avant-garde
Journal Title: Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
The article presents the Bauhaus school as an idea that was not intended to start an independent movement, but to be one of the styles of modern art education. The school founded by Voltaire Gropius was based on the foundation of arts and crafts education which developed in the era of the Art Nouveau. The author shows the evolution of the Bauhaus, which existed barely fourteen years, but its myth spread to the entire 20th and now the 21st century. The article also touches on the difficult political context in which Bauhaus’ was launched and developed. Every contemporary designer must know this German school and should be able to define his/her work in relation to its achievements, but at the same time s/he must remember that the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps were also built by the Bauhaus architects. It is a difficult legacy and a difficult avant-garde.
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Dominika Łarionow
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- DOI 10.26485/AI/2017/19/21
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