From Bauhaus to Our House (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Wolfe
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Architecture and design
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Arts
- Subjects: Ideology, Philosophy or philosophers, Communism or communists, Socialism, Twentieth century, Working class, Houses, mansions, or manors, Proletariat, Drawing, Buildings, Architecture and design
Form and Content
On Sunday, April 28, 1974, as the result of an article in The New York Times about a Yale University art exhibition, Tom Wolfe came to an interpretation of the nature of twentieth century art and architecture that would eventually characterize two of his books, The Painted Word (1975) and From Bauhaus to Our House. “Then and there,” Wolfe wrote in The Painted Word, “I experienced a flash known as the AHA! phenomenon, and the buried life of contemporary art was revealed to me for the first time. The fogs lifted! The clouds...
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