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DESCRIPTION:Deborah Ascher Barnstone will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentati
 on on Thursday\, February 24 at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “The Color 
 of Modernism: Paints\, Pigments and the Transformation of Modern Architect
 ure in 1920s Germany.”One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about e
 arly modernism is that it was white. This was never true anywhere in Europ
 e\, least of all in Germany where Bruno Taut published his famous “Call to
  Coloured Architecture” in 1919 before leading a motley effort to invent n
 ew ways of using color in architecture and urban design. This talk\, based
  on a new book with the eponymous title\, will dismantle the myth of white
 ness by examining five different theoretical interpretations of scientific
  and artistic color theory advanced by members of the German avant-garde. 
 Often working closely with contemporary artists\, 1920s architects in Germ
 any developed an astonishing breadth of approaches that ranged from using 
 colour as surface ornament to color as space-making agent to color as the 
 agent of emotional charge to color as the quality that could dissolve the 
 surface of a wall to make physical enclosure and architecture abstract ent
 ities. Thus\, color was integral to the spatial quality of design\, not ap
 plied as an afterthought\, and a key aspect of the work of many avant-gard
 e architects developing new aesthetic systems.Deborah Ascher Barnstone is 
 Professor of Architecture and Head of School at University of Technology S
 ydney. A graduate of Barnard College\, Columbia University Graduate School
  of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation and Delft University of Tec
 hnology\, she is both a practicing licensed architect and an architectural
  historian. Barnstone’s primary research interests are in interrogating th
 e origins of modernism and exploring the relationships between art\, archi
 tecture\, and culture more broadly. Her monographs include The Break with 
 the Past:  German Avant-garde Architecture\, 1910-1925 (Routledge: 2018)\,
  Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Weimar Breslau\, 1918-1933 (Uni
 versity of Michigan Press: 2016)\, and The Color of Modernism:  Paints\, P
 igments and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany (Bl
 oomsbury 2021). Recent publications include articles in Journal of Archite
 cture\, Journal of Design History\, and New German Critique.This event wil
 l be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on t
 he day of the event. This event will be live with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Color of Modernism
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