Making Sense of the Modernist Muse: Creative Cognition and Play at the Bauhaus

Phillip Prager

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    Abstract

    In a review of the methodology of the Bauhaus (Germany’s famous art school of the Weimar Republic era) in light of more recent scientific research on creativity and especially in light of the work of László Moholy-Nagy, the author examines the emphasis the school placed on play and positive emotions and concludes that it evinced a highly sophisticated understanding of creative cognition half a century ahead of science. He thus questions the modernist and rationalistic paradigms into which the Bauhaus has been enshrined and discusses its true relationship to the idea of play
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftAmerican Journal of Play (Print)
    Vol/bind7
    Udgave nummer1
    Sider (fra-til)27-49
    Antal sider23
    ISSN1938-0399
    StatusUdgivet - 1 okt. 2014

    Emneord

    • Bauhaus
    • cognition
    • creativity and play
    • László Moholynagy
    • philosophy
    • photography

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