Britain and the Bauhaus: Alan Powers Challenges the View That the Reception of the Bauhaus in 1930S Britain Went Little Futher Than Providing Temporary Shelter for Some of Its Teachers. Common Roots with the Bauhaus in the Arts and Crafts Movement Helps to Explain a Lively British Interest in the School's Ideals, Among Not Only Architects But Also Designers--and Even Puppeteers (Essay)
Apollo 2006, May, 163, 531
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There is a familiar story about Britain and the Bauhaus that is still told today. (1) A backward island, bereft of modernism, entertains almost unawares a handful of the world's most progressive designers, but fails to find them adequate employment, so that they move on to the USA. When applied to three former staff of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer, this seems to correspond to the facts--and history has awarded the Bauhaus a prime position in the period. But while modernism was late in developing in Britain compared with Germany, a national habit of self-denigration has meant that the positive aspects of Bauhaus reception in Britain, and of equivalent endogenous modernisms, has consistently been overlooked. FIRST SIGHTINGS