Tag Archives: Modernism

Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design

Book – Exhibition – Events | Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond

Melbourne Launch next week 25 July, details below. The anthology Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond, soon to be launched in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane alongside a series of talks and exhibitions, is a major contribution to the centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019. The book, exhibitions and accompanying public events are the culmination of a three-year research project that brought together the region’s leading experts in modern art, design and architecture and has uncovered untold stories of how European modernism’s revolutionary ideas on art, design and architecture came to Australia and New Zealand. Bauhaus Diaspora starts with the Australian reception of […]

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Call for Papers | CRiSiS 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (

CRiSiS | 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies University of Leuven, Belgium, 17-19 Sept. 2020 Conference website: http://www.eam-europe.be/2020-conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism. Throughout their history, avant-gardists and modernists have faced crises, be they economic or political, scientific or technological, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. Modernists and avant-gardists have in turn continually stood accused of instigating crises, whether artistic or cultural, sensorial or conceptual, incidental or intentional, far-reaching or negligible, representational or other. The very concepts […]

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