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Luzinski prefers to direct his aggression at a baseball. "I enjoy crushing it and hitting it out of the yard," he says. His 26th home run this season, over the center-field fence of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, was hit so hard that Fellow Slugger Allen could remember only one other with which to compare it. Says Allen: "My first year in the Eastern League there was a guy who could shoot a ball high from a cannon, jump into a Jeep, drive to center field, jump out and catch the ball. One night someone asked...
...weakness of the show is that the Busch-Reisinger is uncommunicative. The museum raises your curiosity but gives no explanations for the show's diversity or what it implies about the power of the school at its early stage. Most viewers won't come to the show with a fund of Bauhaus history. Instead, they're interested because the name connotes an austere functionalism in design that has infiltrated 1970s American life everywhere from typography to the mass-produced Marcel Breuer steel tubular chair. They'll wonder how this regulated style ever evolved from these 51 varied graphics--expressionist, primitive...
...certainly not beyond the Busch-Reisinger Museum's resources to do this. In 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, migrated to Cambridge. He headed Harvard's Graduate School of Design, brought associate Gyorgy Kepes to MIT, and inspired a Bauhaus focus at the Busch-Reisinger. His gift of half the exhibited graphics (the other half were given this year by Lyonel Feininger, a long-time Bauhaus faculty member and his wife) is a dazzling portion of the Busch's substantial Bauhaus collection. Beyond that, the museum could easily have borrowed around Cambridge, a last stronghold of the Bauhaus...
...order to flesh out the graphics exhibit, the Busch has pulled a few favorite Bauhaus works from its own collection. Klee and Feininger paintings, 1920-23, and Bauhaus crafts. The crafts, like the graphics, are a wide-spread sampling alongside yet another influence of the Bauhaus, art nouveau crafts. The resulting conglomeration is fascinating but confusing...
...stylistically. As such, it's an effort to communicate with each other and the public. It also says something about their support of the Bauhaus ideal of integrating the artist into society, and something about the early, catalytic years of the Bauhaus which inspired this support. Unfortunately the Busch-Reisinger does not elaborate either visually or with text to explain what that something is. The anecdotes remain hinted at, but untold, visually powerful, diverse, intriguing, and in puzzling...