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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. In slipcase. English. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When the idea was proposed to create Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art as an establishment to unify the collections and programmes of the former Middlesbrough Art Gallery and Cleveland Crafts Centre a great many questions were raised. First amongst these was the rationale and potential for a cohesive programme to speak with clarity not only on modern and contemporary fine and applied art but also at the points where the two disciplines come together and move apart. From the very outset one moment in twentieth century art history stood out from any other in the encapsulation of these issues. In the moment immediately following the carnage of the First World War German academics and artists were also considering the potential of a radical joining together of creative ideas and disciplines in the pursuit of a unified model of artistic endeavour. Walter Gropius was also charged with unifying two distinct art colleges which resulted in the creation of the Bauhaus certainly the most well known art school of the modern age. It is therefore eminently sensible that in its first year of activity mima should present a substantial series of exhibitions that analyse this critical moment in modern art history. Central to this group of exhibitions is one which looks hard at the reality of the Bauhaus as an actual college of art that lived through a short turbulent and remarkably productive thirteen years whilst in related exhibitions its legacies are considered. (SP)