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art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
Deutzer Freiheit 107
50679 Köln
Germany
Opening hours (office and showroom):
Monday to Friday 8 – 17
info@artbookcologne.de
Phone: +49 221 800 80 80
Fax: +49 221 800 80 82
About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Partners in Design: Bauhaus-Pioniere in Amerika
| Editor | David A. Hanks, Friedrich Meschede |
| Publisher | Arnoldsche |
| Year | 2017 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | German |
| ISBN | 978-3-89790-496-5 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Weight | 1270 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Donald Albrecht, Barry Bergdoll et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Kunsthalle Bielefeld |
| Article ID | art-28722 |
As the 1930s began Alfred H. Barr Jr., founder of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Philip Johnson, distinguished architect, brought the principles of the Bauhaus to America – even before exiles from Nazi Germany fully established the idea of architecture and furnishings as a functional whole in the United States.
Barr’s organization of the museum reflected the departmental structure of the Bauhaus, elevating architecture, graphic design, utilitarian furniture design, industrial design, photography and film to be on an equal footing with painting and sculpture, and endorsing all to be recognized as art. Barr and Johnson curated exceptional exhibitions such as Modern Architecture: International Exhibition (1932) and Machine Art (1934) at MoMA and created modern interiors in private living quarters.
Comprehensive essays and series of photos trace how modernism found its way into the American cultural landscape.
