THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY PART ONE “A categorical imperative has been imposed by Hitler upon unfree mankind; to arrange their thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself, so that nothing similar will happen.” Theodor W....
Das Staatliche Bauhaus Founding the Bauhaus, 1919-1923 Historically as an art school and as a design movement, the Bauhaus stands as a counterweight to the solipsism and Surrealism in Paris and the anger and turmoil in Berlin. To a certain extent, the Bauhaus can be...
New Objectivity New Theories of Painting in Germany, 1920s The Great War ended with the notorious Treaty of Versailles, a treaty, which inflicted humiliating reparations upon the German peoples, leaving them with feelings of despair and anger and a stunned disbelief. ...