Thought this video was really great overview by the BBC on the Bauhaus. Put together a lot of puzzle pieces for me.
Parts of it actually reminded me of the Kibbo Kift, which was something of an offshoot of the Boy Scouts after WWI, founded by an artist in protest of that organization becoming increasingly militaristic. They used a lot of theatre and ritual and social experimentation. Despite those origins, and being ostensibly committed to world peace, the Kift later morphed into the paramilitary Greenshirts. Very weird story on their own.
Having studied a lot lately art and social movements from this interwar (and pre-war) period, I feel like I’m starting to catch a much better grasp on what was happening back then 100-ish years ago. And sadly, much of it is happening again. Except where are the amazing art movements nowadays to counter all of it?
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