The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 192
... Gropius ( 1883-1969 ) , two older Weimar institutions were fused . One was the Grand Ducal Academy of Art , dating from the mid - eighteenth century ; the other was a much newer affair , the Arts and Crafts School , set up in Weimar in ...
... Gropius ( 1883-1969 ) , two older Weimar institutions were fused . One was the Grand Ducal Academy of Art , dating from the mid - eighteenth century ; the other was a much newer affair , the Arts and Crafts School , set up in Weimar in ...
Page 194
... Gropius , whose work up to 1914 was all industrial . In his precocious design for the Fagus shoe- last factory of 1911 , probably the most " advanced " building of any sort put up in Europe before the Great War , Gropius not only ...
... Gropius , whose work up to 1914 was all industrial . In his precocious design for the Fagus shoe- last factory of 1911 , probably the most " advanced " building of any sort put up in Europe before the Great War , Gropius not only ...
Page 195
... Gropius's own career . Nothing more was heard about wood as the material of Utopia . The Dessau Bauhaus was all steel , concrete , and glass ( plate 134 ) , designed by Gropius as a polemical metaphor of collaboration with industry ...
... Gropius's own career . Nothing more was heard about wood as the material of Utopia . The Dessau Bauhaus was all steel , concrete , and glass ( plate 134 ) , designed by Gropius as a polemical metaphor of collaboration with industry ...
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