Xanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War
(Book #119 in the Drawing Papers Series)
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The oeuvre of Bauhaus artist Alexander "Xanti" Schawinsky (1904-79) encompasses a range of social and political investigations. Schawinsky spent a lifetime relocating--from Switzerland to Germany to Italy to the United States--and in the process developed his central themes, which include the responsibility of the individual and the repercussions of machine warfare. His Bauhaus training is manifested in his work's complex interpretation of the interrelationship between art, craft and design, and his practice traversed avant-garde theater, experimental photography, the Bauhaus jazz band, mechanical music and dance, and graphic design. This publication focuses on Schawinsky's work on paper from the 1940s, particularly the Head Drawings and Faces of War . Schawinsky's 1940s series reveal the existential struggle of an artist informed by Bauhaus idealism coping with the devastation of war.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0942324897
ISBN13:9780942324891
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:Drawing Center
Length:126 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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