Comments on: Bauhaus: a style? http://spiekermann.com/en/bauhaus-a-style/ Typomania is incurable but not lethal. Thu, 10 May 2012 19:20:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: George Loch http://spiekermann.com/en/bauhaus-a-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1983 George Loch Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:11:22 +0000 http://spiekermann.com/en/?p=812#comment-1983 The question for me is why does we need to identify with style. It feels so "McDonalds" to me to have some refer to "Bauhaus Style" as if it were a menu for what they want to eat from. The thoughts, process, and collaboration was the real value of Bauhaus. The resulting work was and will always be admirable but, I don't think the product adhered to a set of the same parameters. Who knows what would have developed had they been allowed to continue. Thank you for sharing your thoughts The question for me is why does we need to identify with style. It feels so “McDonalds” to me to have some refer to “Bauhaus Style” as if it were a menu for what they want to eat from. The thoughts, process, and collaboration was the real value of Bauhaus. The resulting work was and will always be admirable but, I don’t think the product adhered to a set of the same parameters. Who knows what would have developed had they been allowed to continue.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts

]]> By: Ben Bodien http://spiekermann.com/en/bauhaus-a-style/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Ben Bodien Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:44:39 +0000 http://spiekermann.com/en/?p=812#comment-470 Fascinating insights, and I laughed at your description of Bauhaus as bespectacled gentlemen with interesting facial hair styles! That does seem to typify so many of the lecturers, and probably the attending scholars. A superb point made too about the way we receive the Bauhaus output through intervening media. I was lucky enough to visit an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London on the work of Moholy-Nagy and Albers, and having previously only seen images of their work on screen or in glossy books, I was struck by how rough much of it seemed. Not just from age either, but it was clear by staring closely at their graphic, product, furniture and typeface design that it was all handmade with crude tools, and not polished, refined and machine-honed as I might have been led to expect from the reproductions I'd seen to that point. Fascinating insights, and I laughed at your description of Bauhaus as bespectacled gentlemen with interesting facial hair styles! That does seem to typify so many of the lecturers, and probably the attending scholars.

A superb point made too about the way we receive the Bauhaus output through intervening media. I was lucky enough to visit an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London on the work of Moholy-Nagy and Albers, and having previously only seen images of their work on screen or in glossy books, I was struck by how rough much of it seemed. Not just from age either, but it was clear by staring closely at their graphic, product, furniture and typeface design that it was all handmade with crude tools, and not polished, refined and machine-honed as I might have been led to expect from the reproductions I’d seen to that point.

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