Women's Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811804666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Book by Weltge, Sigrid Wortmann
Buy and read this book M. Andersen-Miller This is a fascinating and thorough account of an under-appreciated subject. Beautifully designed and illustrated.
Weltge is an art history professor at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Beautifully written and illustrated, this study unearths a major chapter in Bauhaus history. Their legacy of free experimentation led to a rebirth of handweaving in the U.S. After the Nazis closed the Bauhaus in 1933, its weavers dispersed to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, to California's Pond Farm Community and to the New Bauhaus established in Chicago by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. From Publishers Weekly Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and other male leaders of the famous interwar German art school steered women applicants into the weaving workshop because they considered textiles to be "women's work." With designs ranging from severely geometrical to riotously colorful, weavers like Gunta Stolzl, Benita Otte, Anni Albers and Marli Ehrman m