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    612-822-4611

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Xanti Schawinsky

Xanti Schawinsky

Schawinsky, Xanti
Gygax, Raphael
Munder, Heike

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Art HistoryGeneral PhotographyIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 3037643978
ISBN13: 9783037643976
Publisher: Jrpeditions
Published: Aug 25 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.71
Height: 0.38 Width: 7.72 Depth: 10.82
Language: English
In his lifetime, Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904-79) was best known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. Fleeing Germany before the beginning of the Second World War, he landed at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where in the 1930s he developed his theory of the Spectodrama. Involving multimedia productions examining elementary phenomena such as space, motion, light, sound or color from scientific, technical and performance-based perspectives, the Spectodrama represents an early form of the happening. Beyond the avant-garde utopias of the Bauhaus and his proto-happening art, Schawinsky also worked as a painter and graphic designer.

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