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  • Published: 27 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718199470
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

B is for Bauhaus

An A-Z of the Modern World




A highly eclectic, intensely personal dictionary of design from a leading expert in the field

This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture.

It's an essential tool kit for understanding the modern world. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art.

  • Published: 27 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780718199470
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

About the author

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic is the director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for theObserver and the Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice architecture biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. 

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