DR. MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
ARTHI3400-07:
Constructivism and The Bauhaus
Monday/Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:50 pm
Course
description: This course will deal with
the utopian experiments in art and theory to emerge from the Russian
Constructivist movement and the German Bauhaus academy in the years between the
two World Wars. In both Constructivism and The Bauhaus, one finds some of the
most influential ideas on the integration of art and everyday life in
history—affecting our world to this very day—which we will study through the
objects and writings created by the artists associated with each. Since the
course deals as much with history as with art, we will also be exploring the
different historical events, artistic media and philosophical theories that
inform the artworks presented in the class.
RESEARCH/PAPERS:
Citation
style: paper writing guidelines
Search the collection of KCAI's
Jannes Library
Research your papers on the Wilson Web!
Search the collection of the Kansas City Public
Libraries
Search the UMKC Libraries' catalog
Search the University of Kansas Libraries' catalog
Art in the News:
NEW!
Sotheby's auction of German design likely to set record for Marianne Brandt
[Browse the objects up for sale at Sotheby's German design
auction]
NEW!
Watch video excerpts
from Moholy-Nagy's Light Play: Black-White-Gray
NEW! Watch clip of
choreography from Oskar Schlemmer's Form Dance
Bauhaus influence on photography explored in show of Czech photography
Controversy, censorship, and propaganda still prevalent in Putin's Russian art
world
London's Guardian revisits the Bauhaus legend in honor of MiMA exhibition
[Read The Guardian's review of MiMA's Bauhaus
retrospective]
London
set to show a controversial exhibition of works from Russian collections
New York Public Library exhibits Constructivist books in Graphic Modernism
exhibition
Just added: Direct
link to MoMA's 2002 Russian Avant-Garde Book exhibition website
Bauhaus photographers' influence celebrated in the Guggenheim's Foto
exhibition
Russian developer and senator buys stake in the Melnikov House to restore it as
museum
NYC's
Museum of Modern Art explores the Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist
Architecture through Richard Pare's photographs
(Read an interview with Pare on the origins/evolution of
his project documenting Soviet architectural history)
NYC
East River Commedia restages the early-Soviet-era play The Magnanimous
Cuckold
Cleveland considers tearing down Marcel Breuer's only skyscraper