Bøger af Torsten Blume

Edition Bauhaus 38 In 1921, Walter Gropius founded a theater workshop at the Bauhaus. It conducted new research and experiments on the relationship between humans and technology. The central protagonists Lothar Schreyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholoy-Nagy investigated the issues of mechanization, machine industrialization, and rationalization. They sought a new, meaningful relationship with the dynamized, increasingly technically animated environment. In their stage laboratory, they developed abstract motion studies, designed atmosphere machines, and built theater apparatus. They also organized the famous Bauhaus celebrations, where they staged themselves as a collective of new humans. For the first time, an exhibition and a catalog with sketches, drawings, photographs as well as films, figurines, costumes, models, and apparatus are now devoted to the experiments and concepts of the legendary Bauhaus stage.

Seit langem schon nutzen wir Handys, Bankautomaten oder Internet als etwas Gewöhnliches in unserem urbanen Alltag. Grundsätzlich anders scheint das Leben dadurch nicht geworden zu sein. Oder haben wir uns unmerklich an die Existenz des Unsichtbaren gewöhnt?Wie lassen sich neue digitale Möglichkeiten für den Gestalter kreativ nutzen? Das IV. Internationale Bauhaus Kolleg "Dot.City" hat Strategien für den Einsatz digitaler Medien aufgezeigt, die das Unvorhersehbare und Unplanbare in die Stadt integrieren. Das Buch zeigt die Medialisierung des urbanen Lebens als ein globales Phänomen und beschreibt die Konsequenzen, die sich daraus für die Gestaltung des Lebensraums Stadt ergeben.

The fifth issue of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau's new periodical focuses on the role of the tropics as an ideal of modernism. Torsten Blume explores aspects of nudity in modernism, Zvi Efrat writes about Arieh Sharon's 'tropical architecture' in Nigeria, Brenda Danilowitz proves the influence of pre-Colombian art on Anni Alber's work with textiles, Carola Ebert and Stefan Locke offer a cultural history of the bungalow as a global architectural phenomenon, Regina Bittner describes the transcultural exchange between Indian and European modernism and Marion von Osten analyses the insidious propaganda used by the Nazis to discredit the Weißenhof settlement in Stuttgart as an Arab village. Also includes articles on information design after Otto Neurath, Erich Borchert and his fate in Moscow and love affairs at the studio complex in Dessau.

Ambassador for the Bauhaus: on the life and controversial career of Ludwig GroteGerman art historian Ludwig Grote (1893-1974) had an almost unparalleled influence on the conception of the Bauhaus, helping to shape an idea of the school that has extended far beyond its historical existence. Drawing on documents from Grote's archives at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, this book is the first comprehensive study of Grote's activities as an ambassador for the Bauhaus. From his problematic connections within the Nazi cultural scene and the art trade in Munich from 1939 to 1945 to his influential position in the making of arts policy in postwar West Germany, Grote's story is as complex and fascinating as that of the Bauhaus itself. Featuring a range of scholarly perspectives and a full biography and bibliography, Ludwig Grote and the Bauhaus Idea presents a nuanced picture of an inspiring and contradictory Bauhaus art historian.

In her film installations, Isa Rosenberger weaves traces of history - forgotten or marginalised, often feminist and Jewish women's history - into multi-perspectival historiographies in which gaps and voids are constitutive. In the film realisation, Rosenberger uses montage: linguistic and visual, documentary and fictional narrative levels switch, fragment and join up again, always tied in with current issues and discourses.Taking this into account, the exhibition in Kunsthaus Graz is oriented towards the idea of the 'stage' as a performative space, as a space of memory and experience that should be activated. Shadows, Gaps, Voids is Isa Rosenberger's most comprehensive show to date and features six older works and a new piece, a co-production with Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.