Word: bauhausization
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Connective Tissue. He was the greatest designer of his age. Morris' workshops at Red House and Kelmscott offered as radical a challenge to English mass fabrication with its textiles, furniture and printed papers as, 70 years later, the Bauhaus would present to industrial manufacture in the 20th century. As book printer, weaver of tapestries, furniture designer and stained-glass worker, Morris consistently turned out the best work of anyone in Victorian England. Moreover, he was one of the century's major social thinkers...
...design for Burdine's huge department store in Clearwater, Fla., for example, is a mixture of stark Bauhaus and glinting jewelry shop. The furnishings are so dark-charcoal-gray carpets, walls and ceilings-that shoppers focus exclusively on the carefully lighted merchandise. The scheme works too. Sales are booming, reports Burdine's chairman, Melvin Jacobs. Walker puts the message another way in the stenciled words on one of the paintings he does on the side: ARS GRATIA PECUNIAE-art for the sake of money...
...school he met his future wife, an American student named Susan Weil. They went back together to the U.S. in the fall of 1948. Rauschenberg had read a TIME article about the pioneer abstractionist Josef Albers, the veteran of the Bauhaus who was teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Albers was held in awe as a theorist and a disciplinarian: an inspired Junker. Discipline was what Rauschenberg felt he needed...
...Bauhaus-type exercises Albers assigned to his students was the root of Rauschenberg's later practice: they had to find "interesting" discarded objects?anything from old tin cans to bicycle wheels to stones?and bring them into class as examples of accidental aesthetic form. Moreover, the stringent color exercises that Albers set would ultimately have a lot to do with the severe paintings Rauschenberg made between 1951 and '53: all-white and then all-black panels, the latter painted over a wrinkled mulch of newspaper, with no relationships of color. Twenty-five years ago, these pictures looked absurd; today they...
...only by other leading serious composers," Wolfe said. "You might as well get an upland Baptist to tell a funny story about the birth of Jesus" as to get today's architects to stray from the ideas of Walter Gropius, the German-born American architect who founded the Bauhaus school and headed the Harvard Graduate School of Design...