Word: bauhausization
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...made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind of Bauhaus elegance mit wit (it costs $30 to make...
...until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall...
...essential desire of constructivism -from De Stijl to the Bauhaus in Germany, and particularly with the Russian avant-garde in its flowering through the early years of the revolution-was to construct a beauty that could not be found in nature. Only one metaphor was allowed to intrude into the garden of absolute form: that of the machine. The dynamics of manufacture supplied, for Russian constructivism, the prototype of revolution This permitted Tallin, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and others to create, during the first years after the Soviet Revolution, the only radical art of the 20th century that meshed with radical...
...Bauhaus furniture had to wait for decades before going into production-and then those uncomfortable "functionalist" chairs, designed to mortify the flesh of worshipers in the church of absolute form suffered the bizarre irony of becoming expensive status symbols for corporate lobbies. No worker's bottom would ever touch them...
...world of urban haute bourgeoisie. Moral conventions and religious convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...