Hardback 14x19. 5cm 552 pages Bauhaus. Updated edition - Taschen

This updated and plus handy edition looks back at the Bauhaus school of art and design through 575 illustrations and biographies of its key figures. Produced in collaboration with Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv, this reference work is now available in Bibliotheca Universalis format, making it the ideal guide for your next trip to Berlin, Weimar or Dessau.

The ultimate study in compact format

Pendant During the 14 years of the brief interwar period, theGerman School of Art and design of Bauhaus changed the face of modernity. Putting its utopian ideals into practice, this pioneering school set out to unite the fine arts, crafts and technology, a fusion that was applied to artistic media and practices from cinema to theater, sculpture to à la ceramics.

A true bestseller, this reference work was produced in collaboration with the Bauhaus -Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, which to date houses the important plus collection on the history of Bauhaus. Documents, studies, over 250 previously unpublished photographs, sketches, plans, models and prototypes trace the works created, as well as the major principles and personalities that shaped this collective of idealistic artists, over the course of their three locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. From candid shots pendant of gymnastics sessions to sketches by Paul Klee 's students, from immense architectural plans to Marianne Brandt's elegant ashtray, the collection vibrates with the colors, materials and geometric shapes characteristic of the "total" work of art, a concept at the heart of the Bauhaus vision.

On the occasion of the centenary of Bauhaus , this reference work perfectly encapsulates theenergy and rigor of Bauhaus, which was not only a precursor movement to modernism, but also laid the foundations for artistic training, according to which creative expression and innovative ideas would lead to works that were as functional as they were aesthetically pleasing. This handy plus edition covers the work of artists such as Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich and many others.