Design And Form: The Basic Course at The Bauhaus

Written by Johannes Itten (1888–1967), Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist. A description of one of the landmarks of modern art education—the famous Basic Course at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. The Basic Course was used as a trial period to judge the students with varying educational backgrounds who arrived from all parts of the country. Itten describes his methods for encouraging the student to highly individual and creative uses of light and dark, material and texture, rhythm, expressive and subjective form, and color. The Bauhaus and its leaders, among them Gropius, Feininger, Itten, Muche, Schlemmer, Klee, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, have had a determining influence on the development of art and teaching in the United States. 

Published by Reinhold Publishing Corporation in 1964. Paperback, 190 pages. In used good condition, some marks on front cover.