Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)

1937

László Moholy-Nagy founds the Chicago Institute of Design

Event · North America

Cream brochure page with a New Bauhaus Chicago emblem, a short programme statement, and a circular curriculum diagram.
László Moholy-Nagy, The New Bauhaus: Course Curriculum, 1936/1937. László Moholy-Nagy. IIT Institute of Design / University Archives and Special Collections, Paul V. Galvin Library, via Google Arts & Culture. Image source.

Originally known as the New Bauhaus in Chicago, the school attracted former staff from the original Bauhaus such as György Kepes. The creation of an American Bauhaus played a role in tilting the global center of modernism to North America and carried on the original’s attempt to create a holistic aesthetic congruous with a modern industrial society.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

György Kepes, László Moholy-Nagy

Movements

Bauhaus, Modernism

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Ideas
aesthetics, design, education, industry
People
György Kepes, László Moholy-Nagy
Organisations
Bauhaus, New Bauhaus
Places
Chicago, North America, United States

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