Philip Goad, Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Harriet Edquist and Isabel Wünsche (eds.), Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education Through Art, Design and Architecture,

Abstract

This interesting volume faces simultaneously in two directions. It informs the Australian audience about the precepts of the Bauhaus school of art and design, which flourished in Germany in the 1920s, while at the same time interrogating the development in Australia of a modernist art pedagogy. Rather strangely, given the universal repute and global influence of the Bauhaus, the authors of the book’s Introduction suggest that “the Bauhaus story itself is arguably well known”. The argument is ...