From Bauhaus to Our House | From Bauhaus to Our House

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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

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...

From Bauhaus to Our House | From Bauhaus to Our House

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