McCloskey Speaker Series: Constructing and Deconstructing the Myths of the Bauhaus

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Date

Mon Aug 5, 2019
4:30pm – 5:30pm

Location

Aspen, CO
Doerr-Hosier Center
845 Meadows Rd.

Featuring Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro professor of art history at Columbia University and curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.  Bergdoll will address the Bauhaus’s impact on modernist design, which reached far beyond the provincial German cities of Weimar and Dessau where the school primarily made its home.  The Bauhaus’s creative use of publications and exhibitions broadcast its philosophy and amplified its achievements. For example, its exhibition in 1923 showed off student work and harnessed a panorama of European modernism by associating works of architects from the Netherlands to the US with the work of its students and masters. Reality and myth began to fuse in the perception of the Bauhaus, when, in fact, no architectural instruction was offered until a few years later.  Bergdoll will distinguish the school from the propaganda machine and the reality from the myth.

Fee: $25. Tickets on sale Monday, July 22 at www.aspenshowtix.com, (970) 920-5770, or in person at the Wheeler Opera House box office.

Society of Fellows members may request complimentary tickets by emailing sof@aspeninstitute.org or calling 970.544.7980. Complimentary tickets for SOF members are limited and subject to availability.

Parking is very limited.  Please carpool, walk, bike, or ride RFTA. Ride WE-cycle for FREE to and from events at the Aspen Institute and Aspen Meadows. Download Transit in the app store to unlock a bike and access unlimited rides of 30 minutes or less May through October.

Featuring Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro professor of art history at Columbia University and curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.  Bergdoll will address the Bauhaus’s impact on modernist design, which reached far beyond the provincial German cities of Weimar and Dessau where the school primarily made its home.  The Bauhaus’s creative use of publications and exhibitions broadcast its philosophy and amplified its achievements. For example, its exhibition in 1923 showed off student work and harnessed a panorama of European modernism by associating works of architects from the Netherlands to the US with the work of its students and masters. Reality and myth began to fuse in the perception of the Bauhaus, when, in fact, no architectural instruction was offered until a few years later.  Bergdoll will distinguish the school from the propaganda machine and the reality from the myth.

Fee: $25. Tickets on sale Monday, July 22 at www.aspenshowtix.com, (970) 920-5770, or in person at the Wheeler Opera House box office.

Society of Fellows members may request complimentary tickets by emailing sof@aspeninstitute.org or calling 970.544.7980. Complimentary tickets for SOF members are limited and subject to availability.

Parking is very limited.  Please carpool, walk, bike, or ride RFTA. Ride WE-cycle for FREE to and from events at the Aspen Institute and Aspen Meadows. Download Transit in the app store to unlock a bike and access unlimited rides of 30 minutes or less May through October.

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