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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: FROM MATERIAL TO ARCHITECTURE

László Moholy-Nagy’s From Material to Architecture is the 14th book and final book in the Bauhausbücher series. Published in 1929, a year after his departure from the Bauhaus, it offers a comprehensive overview of the themes he explored as an artist and professor during his half-decade at the school, as well as insight into the holistic teaching approaches he developed alongside Walter Gropius. The book’s general trajectory follows that of its title, beginning with materials in their most basic form.

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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: THE NON-OBJECTIVE WORLD

Like Kandinsky before him, Kasimir Malevich arrived at the Bauhaus already wielding an impressive international reputation. His trip to Germany in the spring of 1927 saw him visit both Dessau and Berlin; while in the former he met with Gropius and was able to arrange for the publication of what would be the eleventh book in the Bauhausbücher series: The Non-objective World (Die gegenstandslose Welt). 

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BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: POINT AND LINE TO PLANE

Wassily Kandinsky was already an internationally renowned artist and thinker by the time he joined the Bauhaus in 1922, having written Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art) a decade prior and exhibited his work throughout Europe yet longer. While he claimed to have written the majority of Point and Line to Plane prior to 1914, it was not published until 1926, when it would become the ninth book in the Bauhausbücher series. 

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TEMPLES OF THE ROAD: TRUCKS AND TUKS

The newest book from Christopher Herwig, author of the celebrated Soviet Bus Stops series, shifts to a new part of the world but a related subject: the vivid and varied decorated vehicles of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Trucks and Tuks celebrates an art form that, while present worldwide, arguably reaches its pinnacle of devotion and self-expression in South Asia, with vehicles ranging from tiny two-seaters to massive road-spanning lorries displaying a wide array of styles.

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OHRAI NORIYOSHI: GREEN UNIVERSE

Noriyoshi Ohrai (1935-2015) was a Japanese poster artist and illustrator known for his vivid work that elevated mainstream sci-fi and action tropes into hallucinatory, richly detailed compositions. In addition to his well-known posters for Star Wars and Godzilla, he created promotional artwork for thousands of films from Japan and around the world.

John Peck
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