 | Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art: Optical Deconstructions Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Design; Art & Visual Culture; Photography; Visual Arts; Philosophy; Contemporary Art; Design; History of Art; Modern Art; Theory; History of Art & Design; Photography ; Phenomenology; 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. Edit Toth is Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. |
