"In his own lifetime, Swiss artist Xanti Schawinsky was best known for the theatrical work he developed at the Bauhaus. During his Bauhaus years Schawinsky made albums of collaged photographs and papers, personal as well as artistic. "Xanti Schawinsky: The Album" is based on the albums Schawinsky conceived during his tenure in the Bauhaus theater department, working documents which provide clues to his later work at Black Mountain Colleg ..."
"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, tech ..."
"Ecke leicht bestoßen, sonst gut Xanti Schawinsky. Malerei, Bühne, Grafikdesign, Fotografie Broschierte Ausgabe Sprache: Deutsch ISBN-10: 3875841719 Buch zur Ausstellung im Bauhaus-Archiv"
"The oeuvre of Bauhaus artist Alexander "Xanti" Schawinsky (1904–79) encompasses a range of social and political investigations. Schawinsky spent a lifetime relocating―from Switzerland to Germany to Italy to the United States―and in the process developed his central themes, which include the responsibility of the individual and the repercussions of machine warfare. His Bauhaus training is manifested in his work's complex interpretation o ..."
"Language: italian - 100 pages - duotone illustrations - Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Milano, Fonte d'Abisso Arte, nel 1993. A cura di Giuliana Scimé. Sul piano formale, la fotografia di Lux Feininger (Berlino, 1910) si riallaccia alla ricerca e all'estetica del costruttivismo russo. Franco Grignani (Pieve Porto Morone, Pavia, 1908) e Xanti Schawinsky (Basilea, 1904) radicalizzano le ricerche sui meccanismi percettivi e sulla luce qual ..."