Nikos Pegioudis
Biographical Note
Nikos Pegioudis, Ph.D. (2015), University College London, is an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Crete, School of Architecture. He has published articles on German and Greek visual culture, architecture, and the sociology of the avant-garde.
Readership
This book is especially relevant to specialist scholars interested in the history of German architecture and design, the artistic avant-garde of Weimar Germany, and avant-garde studies. It will also be valuable for graduate and research students, as well as for upper-level undergraduate seminars.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Geistige Arbeit, Artistic Radicalism and the Applied Arts Movement
2 Applied Arts Reform, Politics of Artistic Professions and the Ideology of the Avant-Garde
3 A New Approach to Artistic Radicalism
1 Form and Reform: Intellectuals, Artists and the Hands of Production
1 Fine Artists, Crafts Reform, and the Art Proletariat
2 The Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk, the Arts and Crafts Reform, and the Politics of the Gesamtkünstler
3 The Third Arts and Crafts Exhibition, the Werkbund and the Tension Between the Designer-as-Artist and the Craftsman
4 The Crisis of Intellectual Labour and the Re-distribution of Skills
5 Discourse as a Way of Restructuring Crafts Hierarchies
6 The Designer’s Workshop and the Clash with Small Craftsmen
7 The Werkbund, Lebensreform, and Socialist Revisionism
2 Reformist Radicalism: The Eloquent Silence of the Avant-Garde in Early Weimar Germany
1 An Inconclusive Secession from the Werkbund: the Arbeitsrat für Kunst between Revolution and Reform
2 Excursus: Organising Radicalism
3 A Second Moment of Silence: Proletarian Culture and the German Applied Arts Movement
4 Bauhaus (R)Evolution
5 Radicalism and Middle-Ground Modernism: Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, and Wilhelm Waetzoldt’s Gedanken zur Kunstschulreform
3 The Death of Painting?
1 Men of the Past: A Crisis of Painting or a Crisis of Reform?
2 In Defence of Painting
3 Kitsch, or Avant-Garde and its Double
4 From Canvas to Poster and Back Again: the Art Proletariat between Avant-Garde, Propaganda, and Kitsch
4 A Struggle of Outsiders: Intellectual Labour and Artistic Radicalism in Late Weimar Germany
1 Intellectual Labour, Artistic Prominence, and Applied Arts Radicalism
2 ASSO’s Artistic Paradigms
3 Outsider, ‘Free-Floating’, and ‘Operative’ Intellectuals
4 The Intellectual as an Outsider or Distance as a Means of Reorientation
5 The Visual Artist as Producer
6 From the Outsider to the Redundant Intellectual
