Thank goodness for the Bauhaus era! Honestly without it we would be in such a different place in art, architecture, and design. The whole evolution of typography really interests me as well. I can't imagine a world without different fonts and use of space other than linear to write letters. The photo of the chair I uploaded above is an example of the Bauhaus furniture, and believe it or not my father has that chair! He also has several other related pieces that I can definitely see coming from this time period. Being an artist, everything he owns exudes art in every way so this doesn't surprise me.
As for the film we watched at the end of class. HOLY CRAP! I definitely had nightmares after that. It was extremely disturbing, but also had a huge impact on viewers of the terrible effects of drugs and self-mutilation. I feel like I really need to watch the rest of that to get a grip on what we were seeing.
William Burroughs was also extremely influential. His ides of the "Cut-Ups" is truly brilliant. He clearly saw all the flaws in society and had no problem expressing them through his words. Everything he did seems to be politically and societally-related in some way. He had no fear and changed the world, one word at a time.
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