Bauhaus Bodies : Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School (Hardcover)

List of Images Introduction: Embodying the Bauhaus Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA) Part I: The Bauhaus in Weimar and Beyond: Gendered Bodies and the Search for Utopia 1. Soft Skills and Hard Facts: A Systematic Overview of Bauhaus Women's Presence and Roles Patrick Rossler and Anke Blumm (Bauhaus Museum, Germany) 2. Bodies Drilled in Freedom: Nudity, Body Culture, and Classical Gymnastics at the Weimar Bauhaus Ute Ackermann (Bauhaus Museum, Germany) 3. The Spiritual Enhancement of the Body: Johannes Itten, Gertrud Grunow, and Mazdaznan at the Early Bauhaus Linn Burchert (Humboldt University, Germany) 4. Utopias of a New Society: Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and the Loheland and Schwarzerden Women's Communes Sandra Neugartner (Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Science, USA) 5. Invisible Bodies and Empty Spaces: Notes on Gender at the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition Paul Monty Paret (University of Utah, USA) Part II: A New Unity? Technologies and Techniques of Gender 6. Clothing Bauhaus Bodies Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland) 7. Paul Klee and the New Woman Dancer: Gret Palucca, Karla Grosch, and the Gendering of Constructivism Susan Funkenstein (University of Michigan, USA) 8. Ise Gropius: "Everyone Here Calls me 'Frau Bauhaus'!" Mercedes Valdivieso (University of Lleida, Spain) 9. Dorte Helm, Margaret Leiteritz, and Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp: Rare Women of the Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop Morgan Ridler (Montclair State University and Westchester Community College, USA) 10. Androgyny in Oskar Schlemmer's Figural Art Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Part III: Identities and Ideologies in Bauhaus Photography and New Media 11. Disorder or Subordination? On Gender Relations in Bauhaus Photographs Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) 12. Bauhaus Double Portraits Karen Koehler (Hampshire College, USA) 13. "A School for Becoming Human": The Socialist Humanism of Irene Bluhova's Bauhaus Photographs Julia Secklehner (Courtauld Institute of Art in London, UK) 14. Marcel Breuer and the Theatrical Interior Jordan Troeller (Harvard University, USA) List of Contributors Index