A LOSS TO GAIN
Book DesignINSTRUCTOR: Steven Serrato
PHOTOGRAPHY DOCUMENTATION: Juan Román
BAUHAUS LEGACY
The rise of the Nazis in the 1930s caused an unprecedented upheaval in German art circles, uprooting hundreds of artist from their homeland. Eventually the former Bauhaus associates who fled Hitler altered the larger course of art history by vastly enriching the American artistic milieu. A Loss To Gain: The Bauhaus In Exile, explore the meaning and consequences of this displacement, concentrating on the experiences of the exiles abroad and the receptions they encountered in their host countries.
TRANCENDING IDEA
The Bauhaus was not an institution with a clear program - it was an idea. Only an idea spreads so far and lives on.
Unfolding the artist’s experience of having to leave behind the old and how they embrace change and grew from those challenges.
Features former Bauhaus associate who relocated to the United States: Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, and Herbert Bayer.
Reflecting characteristics of the featured artist’s work in a subtle way by playing around with the existing grids to visualize the six artist in a consistent system but different ways. Some more structured and compact while others are more airy and simple.
“Limitation makes the creative mind inventive” - Walter Gropius
Constraining the print publication to black and white as a way to minimize cost, and uses colored paper to help readers identify the different sections of the book.
Constraining the print publication to black and white as a way to minimize cost, and uses colored paper to help readers identify the different sections of the book.
