Bauhaus

Opis

Bauhaus. The main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea?the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that followed. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel?s protagonist squarely in the middle of the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture.

The novel is divided into three chapters that trace the evolution of the Bauhaus, as its center moved across Germany?from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin?and as its philosophy responded to this economically, politically and intellectually highly cha