Baldness and Modernism delete Intellect / University of Chicago

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Baldness and Modernism delete Intellect / University of ChicagoThe original bald and unconvincing narrative that triggered this book is that put about by Alison and Peter Smithson in their 1981 Heroic Period of Modern Architecture, limiting modernism to 19151929. This fiction is re contextualized with studies of iconic Bauhaus bald heads Schlemmer, Itten, etc., such Literal Baldness is the subject of Part 1. Part 2 of Phenomenal Baldness unwinds the Bauhaus narrative put about by Walter Gropius, one that has held