Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art Optical Deconstructions 1st Edition by Edit Toth ISBN 9781351062442 1351062441

1 Introduction

Notes

2 Orienting the New WomanBreuer’s Furniture and Complex Gender Expressivity at the Haus am Horn

Moholy-Nagy and Photographic Visibility

Photography, Complex Gendering, and Furniture Design

Technologies of the Visible and Social Gesturing

From Motivation to Habituation

Notes

3 Optical Improvisations: Jazz, Film and Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage

Modern Design, Perception, and Social Engagement

From Jazz Performance to the Performance of Perception

Productive Creation/Creative “Technology”

Framing Cinema: Vision in Motion

Light Play: Black—White—Grey

Space Forming in Three Dimensions: Cinematic Theater and Mechanical Ex-Centric

Notes

4 Domestic Interventions: Marianne Brandt’s “Mediatized” Objects and Self-Portrait Photographs

Lucia Moholy: “Cool” Faces and the Face of Things

Design in Context

Conjuring Alternative Spaces in the Modern Home

Notes

5 “Taking Apart” the Sukiya: The Yamawakis’ Postwar Tokyo Homes

Emptiness, Nihilism, and Sliding Screens

“Taking Apart” and Transitory Optics

Betweenness as Subjective Spatiality (Aidagara)

Notes

6 Vertigo and Kepes’s Light Art in 1950s America

Disorientation of the Senses: From Intertwining to Vertigo

From Photo-Graphy to Mytho-Graphy

Vertigo of Images: Voided Signs and Subjectivities

The Perceptual Form of the City: Neon Camouflage for the Cold War

Notes

7 Contemporary Art, Architecture and Media: Recovering Material Space

Domestic Architectural Games: Diller and Scofidio’s withDrawing Room

Conscious Shadows and the Implied Viewer: Kara Walker’s Expanded Cinema

Isa Genzken’s Windows without a View

Aglaia Konrad’s Study of the Modern

Notes

Index