Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art
Optical Deconstructions
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, History, General Art, Art History
| Author: | Edit Tóth | ISBN: | 9781351062442 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | May 16, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Edit Tóth |
| ISBN: | 9781351062442 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | May 16, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.
