Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at SUNY Buffalo, Elizabeth Otto has published widely on topics relating to gender and media culture in early twentieth-century Europe. She is currently working on a book titled Haunted Bauhaus, which challenges conventional understandings of the Bauhaus, interwar Europe’s most influential art institution. This is the first sustained investigation of the Bauhaus’s ongoing engagement with the body in relation to spiritualism and the occult, gender and figuration, and the Surreal in order to explain the embrace of the irrational which lurks beneath the sleek surfaces and cold structures most commonly associated with the school.
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