Dennis Dahlqvist är Sveriges mest kända konst- och designkritiker. Han har varit verksam som kritiker sedan 1990 på bland annat Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet och för närvarande på Kulturnyheterna (SVT). Han har även arbetat som lektor i designhistoria och teori på bland annat Konstfack och Beckmans Designhögskola.
1995 erhöll Dahlqvist ett Guldägg från Sveriges reklamförbund för Anders Boqvists utställningskatalog RMNS. 2008 producerade Dahlqvist ett modeprogram; Velvet i tio delar som sändes på Sveriges Television. 2012 visade Moderna Museet i Stockholm en retrospektiv utställning om Dahlqvists galleri Ynglingagatan 1 (1993-1999).
In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, sculpture to ceramics. This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 550 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total" work of art. As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. Featured artists include Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Lilly Reich.
In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics. This best-selling reference work is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 575 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total" work of art. As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in Modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. The handy edition features artists Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, and many more.
Magdalena Drostes rikt illustrerade praktverk om Bauhausskolan (1919-1933) är ett måste för alla designälskare. Med hjälp av ett unikt bildmaterial från Bauhaus arkiv och en initierad text förklarar Droste hur skolans banbrytande visionärer förändrade världen. Läs om bortglömda genier som Johannes Itten – en excentrisk lärare som uppfann skolans revolutionerande studieplan vilken fortfarande används på många design-utbildningar över hela världen. Och när du läst klart – lägg den på natt-duksbordet och använd den som ett oumbärligt uppslagsverk om modern design; det gör nämligen jag.