A history of Western architecture by Watkin, David, 1941-2018

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Graphic design : a new history by Eskilson, Stephen, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Revolutions in design -- De Stijl -- Seeking universal harmony -- Typography and journal design -- De Stijl redesigned -- De Stijl architecture -- De Stijl poster design -- De Stijl and Dada -- Revolution in Russia -- The Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik poster -- Alexander Apsit, Boris Zvorykin, Dmitri Moor -- Russian suprematism and constructivism -- Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin -- A new utopia -- Constructivism and Alexander Rodchenko -- Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Photomontage and film -- Photomontage -- Filmic vision -- Gustav Klutsis -- Constructivists under Stalin -- Film posters : the Stenbergs -- El Lissitzky -- El Lissitzky in Germany -- 6. The Bauhaus and the new typography -- Dada and Russian constructivism -- German expressionism -- Expressionist film -- Metropolis -- The Arbeitsrat für Kunst -- Weimar Bauhaus -- Expressionism at the Bauhaus -- Constructivism and the Bauhaus -- László Moholy-Nagy -- Women at the Bauhaus -- The 1923 exhibition -- Political problems -- Dessau Bauhaus -- New buildings -- Herbert Bayer -- "Typophoto" -- Depoliticization at the Bauhaus -- Typography at the Bauhaus -- Paul Renner and Futura -- The new typography -- Die Neue Typographie -- Ring Neue Werbegestalter --…”


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Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943). by Carl, Klaus H.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Biographie; L'Allemagne à la fin du XIXe siècle -- L'Empire; Oskar Schlemmer; Le Bauhaus; Oskar Schlemmer au Bauhaus de Weimar; Le Ballet triadique; Oskar Schlemmer au Bauhaus à Dessau; Le Cycle de Folkwang; La Fin de Dessau; Trois ans a Wroc.aw; Les Années 1939 à 1943; Liste des illustrations.…”
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Paul Klee : his work and thought by Franciscono, Marcel

Table of Contents: “…Klee at the turn of the century -- Landscape and caricature -- Early satires -- Klee's early artistic principles -- The etched inventions -- The making of a modern artist -- Rodin and the works of 1904-7 -- The search for individuality -- Klee and impressionism -- Klee's discovery of the post-impressionists -- The relationship of art and nature -- Cezanne and the pictures of 1910 -- The Candide illustrations -- Klee's encounter with cubism and the blaue reiter -- The first approaches to cubism -- The influence of the blaue reiter in 1912 -- Klee's 1913 cubist compositions -- Klee's relationship to Kandinsky and Marc -- Klee's symbolic language -- Klee and abstraction -- The war years and their aftermath -- Klee's reponse to the war -- Klee and the dada movement -- Klee during the November Revolution -- The bauhaus and Dusseldorf -- Klee's theory courses -- The work of the bauhaus years -- Departure from the bauhaus -- Klee's work in 1933 -- Klee's return to Bern: the late work -- The late work and contemporary art -- The images of death -- Der Infernet Park -- Klee's Tunisian watercolors -- Klee's supposed "anti-Nazi" drawings.…”


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Digital foundations : intro to media design with the Adobe Creative Suite by Burrough, Xtine

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Digital Foundations Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite by burrough, xtine, Mandiberg, Michael

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Lyonel Feininger by Hess, Hans, 1907-1975

Table of Contents: “…Childhood in America ; The Years of Study ; The Caricaturist ; The Emerging Printer ; New Perspectives ; The Mature Painter ; The Bauhaus Years-Weimar ; The Bauhaus Years-Dessau ; Withdrawal from the German Scene ; Return to America ; Manhattan ; The Last Years -- Oeuvre Catalogue -- Appendix. …”


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Art past, art present by Wilkins, David G.

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The hothouse effect : intensify creativity in your organization using secrets from history's most innovative communities by Kunstler, Barton Lee

Table of Contents: “…The hothouse effect -- The four dimensions of the hothouse effect -- The first dimension : values/mission -- Athens : showing the way -- A high-tech hothouse : inspiration meets organization -- The second dimension : ideas/exchange -- Renaissance à la Florentine : "disturbers, agents of the new" -- The art of the idea : four entrepreneurial innovators -- The third dimension : perception/learning -- The Bauhaus : learning by perceiving -- A contemporary Bauhaus in Bologna -- The fourth dimension : social/play -- Re-creating the universe -- "It's all in there" -- Creative visions in research and manufacturing -- CHAI-T : the "creative" hothouse assessment instrument tablet -- The hothouse challenge!…”


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Luxury and modernism : architecture and the object in Germany, 1900-1933 by Schuldenfrei, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Consumption: Peter Behrens at the AEG and the luxury of technology -- Objectivity: the Werkbund display window and architecture's object -- Capitalism and crisis: the Haus am Horn and the early Bauhaus -- Production/Reproduction: the irreproducibility of the Bauhaus object -- Subjectivity: Mies van der Rohe's materiality and the re-inscribing of modernism's meaning -- Interiority: Mies van der Rohe, auratic space, and the modern city -- Conclusion: luxury's final manifestations.…”
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Architecture walks : the best outings near New York City by Rosenfeld, Lucy D., 1939-

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Forms in modernism : a visual set : the unity of typography, architecture & the design arts by Smith, Virginia Grace St. George

Table of Contents: “…Typography's role in modernism -- Early European modernism -- The Bauhaus -- Dueling modernisms -- Native and imported forms -- Mid-century modern -- The end of the modern movement -- American heroic.…”


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New Vision : Experimental Photography of the 1920s

Table of Contents: “…New Vision of Photography (1:43) -- Diagonal Axis Images (1:36) -- Low Angle Shot (1:11) -- High Angle Shot (1:16) -- New Vision Manifesto (1:19) -- Perfect Vertical Shot (1:09) -- 180° View Images (0:51) -- "Symphony of a Metropolis" (1:00) -- "Stairs" (2:14) -- "Driver" (0:40) -- "The New Left" (0:45) -- Bauhaus Complex (1:32) -- Moholy-Nagy's Composition (1:32) -- Absence of Reference Points (1:23) -- Abstraction in Photography (2:43) -- Kaleidoscope Images (1:15) -- Photo Montages (1:02) -- New Vision's Demise (2:05) -- Credits: New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s - Photo (0:27)…”
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The hothouse effect : intensify creativity in your organization using secrets from history's most innovative communities by Kunstler, Barton Lee

Table of Contents: “…; ""THE ART OF THE IDEA: FOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATORS""; ""THE THIRD DIMENSION: PERCEPTION/ LEARNING""; ""THE BAUHAUS: LEARNING BY PERCEIVING""; ""A CONTEMPORARY BAUHAUS IN BOLOGNA""…”
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Performance art : from futurism to the present by Goldberg, RoseLee

Table of Contents: “…Futurism -- Russian futurism and constructivism -- Dada -- Surrealism -- Bauhaus -- Living art c. 1933 to the 1970's -- The art of ideas and the media generation 1968 to 2000 -- The first decade of the new century 2001 to 2010.…”


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New Vision Experimental Photography of the 1920s

Table of Contents: “…New Vision of Photography (1:43) -- Diagonal Axis Images (1:36) -- Low Angle Shot (1:11) -- High Angle Shot (1:16) -- New Vision Manifesto (1:19) -- Perfect Vertical Shot (1:09) -- 180° View Images (0:51) -- "Symphony of a Metropolis" (1:00) -- "Stairs" (2:14) -- "Driver" (0:40) -- "The New Left" (0:45) -- Bauhaus Complex (1:32) -- Moholy-Nagy's Composition (1:32) -- Absence of Reference Points (1:23) -- Abstraction in Photography (2:43) -- Kaleidoscope Images (1:15) -- Photo Montages (1:02) -- New Vision's Demise (2:05) -- Credits: New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s - Photo (0:27)…”
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Arc of Light A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss

Table of Contents: “…Artistic Style (2:22) -- Husband/Artistic Collaborator (1:43) -- Early Years of Anna Campbell (1:57) -- College (2:45) -- Graduate School/Bauhaus (2:16) -- Bauhaus Designers (1:45) -- Exposure to the Modern Movement in Art (3:38) -- South American Experiences (2:07) -- Importance of Color to Art (1:59) -- Art and Silk Screen (2:38) -- Computer Technology and Art (3:24) -- Exploration of Technology and Color (4:30) -- Commissioned Work: Stained Glass Windows (2:19) -- Commissioned Work: "Discoverers" (1:58) -- Commissioned Work: "Extended Vision" (5:39) -- Blindness and Vision Restored (2:00) -- College of Nursing Installations (2:08) -- Artist's Legacy (3:37) -- Credits: Arc of Light: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss (2:01)…”
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Arc of Light : A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss

Table of Contents: “…Artistic Style (2:22) -- Husband/Artistic Collaborator (1:43) -- Early Years of Anna Campbell (1:57) -- College (2:45) -- Graduate School/Bauhaus (2:16) -- Bauhaus Designers (1:45) -- Exposure to the Modern Movement in Art (3:38) -- South American Experiences (2:07) -- Importance of Color to Art (1:59) -- Art and Silk Screen (2:38) -- Computer Technology and Art (3:24) -- Exploration of Technology and Color (4:30) -- Commissioned Work: Stained Glass Windows (2:19) -- Commissioned Work: "Discoverers" (1:58) -- Commissioned Work: "Extended Vision" (5:39) -- Blindness and Vision Restored (2:00) -- College of Nursing Installations (2:08) -- Artist's Legacy (3:37) -- Credits: Arc of Light: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss (2:01)…”
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The Art and Science of Innovation Transdisciplinary Work, Learning and Transgression by White-Hancock, Lorraine

Table of Contents: “…Workplace learning for innovation in the arts: The Bauhaus school -- 6. Transdisciplinary spaces of innovation -- 7. …”
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From ornament to object : genealogies of architectural modernism by Payne, Alina Alexandra

Table of Contents: “…Semper's heritage -- The ubiquity of objects -- Art historians, objects, and empathy -- The architect's world between culture and style -- The fork in the road: Muthesius and Loos -- The aftermath: Bauhaus endgame and Le Corbusier's poetics of portability -- Conclusion: sculpture and scale.…”


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