Haunted Bauhaus by Elizabeth Otto - ISBN: 9780262057134
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Beyond sleek surfaces: the Bauhaus’s secret occult, queer, and radical past.

Haunted Bauhaus

Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

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    298 pages

  • Release Date

    4 March 2026

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Summary

The Bauhaus (1919-1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses.

In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school’s eng…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262057134
ISBN-10:0262057131
Author:Elizabeth Otto
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:298
Release Date:4 March 2026
Weight:680g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm
About The Author

Elizabeth Otto

Elizabeth Otto is a Guggenheim Fellow, Professor of Art History and Gender Studies, and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).

She is the author of Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt and the coauthor of Bauhaus Women - A Global Perspective. Her coedited books include Bauhaus Bodies - Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School.

Her book Haunted Bauhaus is the recipient of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize.

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