OTTO, Elizabeth; RÖSSLER, Patrick
Bauhaus Bodies. Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular.

In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender.[publisher's note]

Published by Bloomsbury, 2019
Art History / Cultural Studies / Essays