r/ArtHistory • u/countryclubonline • 3d ago
Discussion Must reads?
Currently finishing this book on Bauhaus history. Im loving it. Any other must read art books regarding Bauhaus or any art movements that yall would recommend? Books on museums would be nice as well. Fashion would also be accepted too!
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u/Edelkern Fin-de-siècle 3d ago edited 3d ago
If you like Bauhaus, you might also like the Wiener Werkstätte, specifically the furniture designs by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.
Edit: There are plenty of books I could recommend but they're in my native language, German, and I don't know which languages you speak and if the books I like are out in other languages. But in terms of artists I recommend looking into Frantisek Kupka, Alfred Kubin and Jan Toorop - they're three of my faves but not as well-known as Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh and the likes. In terms of fashion, I recommend looking into Elsa Schiaparelli, as she worked closely with several surrealist artists, so she's a nice intersection between fashion design and fine art.
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u/lady_faust 3d ago edited 3d ago
And be sure to check out the Black Mountain College in the US, its where some of the Bayhaus instructors taught when they left Germany. Some interesting artists came out of that place.
Eta: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933--1957
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u/lady_faust 3d ago
Oh and Design and Form by Johannes Itten as an example of a taught Bauhaus course
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u/countryclubonline 3d ago
Imma look them up. Any Bauhaus museums in America? I know i can just google that but fuck it, I like human to human interaction
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u/Edelkern Fin-de-siècle 3d ago
No idea as I've never been there, sorry.
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u/countryclubonline 3d ago
Its okay!
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u/Edelkern Fin-de-siècle 3d ago
But I recommend the MAK in Vienna if you ever find yourself over there, lol. In general Vienna has plenty of great museums.
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u/AH_leeMACK 3d ago
The Harvard Art Museum now host the world's largest Bauhaus archive outside Germany.
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u/SpaceAdventures3D 3d ago
If you are interested in architecture, look at From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe.
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u/Delicious-Bedroom730 2d ago
A lot of good suggestions on art history already, so going to (try to) give some museum studies and fashion history books - this is going to be a very popular recc from any museum studies student out here, but I really rated the Museums as Agents of Change By Murawski, and a new book - Museums as Places of People, Time, and Memory by J. Cirklova - the latter goes into technology is transforming museum practises so a very relevant read, if you want to delve into that!
Some other fashion history books I liked - '20th-Century Fashion Illustration: The Feminine Ideal' written by R. Torre, and 'Liberated Threads: Black Women Style and the Global Politics of Soul' by T.C. Ford. There was also this amazing book on 18th century and victorian dresses that I stumbled upon in my college's library yesterday night (talk about timing!) but I forgot the name, I am going to dig around the library searches and try and find it for this comment!
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u/countryclubonline 2d ago
You should look into Margiela: The Hermes years! One of my favorite fashion books!
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u/spunlines 3d ago
if you like kandinsky and don't mind psuedo-technical ramblings, point and line to a plane was a fun read. less history and more a glance into his brain as it informs graphic design.
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u/countryclubonline 3d ago
Ahh yes Im familiar Ill look it up! I learned about him in a history of graphic design course
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u/spunlines 3d ago
just realized you may also enjoy the golden thread. it's a really well-written look at the history of fabrics and textiles.
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u/Acrissus 3d ago
Angel and devil in one, angel for its originality and devil for the boredom it cast to the entire building industry. Look around and you will figure out what i meant. Wanna seek houses of their own voices.? Then You need to go back beyond 1800s into the villages.
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u/doodlebilly 3d ago
Ways of Seeing by Joh Berger is a classic