Abstract:
"Park was serious about the Bauhaus approach and tried to enlist one of
the Bauhaus founders, Josef Albers. Herta Moselsio recalled writing the
letter that was meant to interest Albers in Bennington but by that time he
had already accepted an appointment to Black Mountain College.
Nevertheless teaching in the Bauhaus mode began at Bennington in
February, 1935, with the arrival of Lila Ulrich who had studied with
Albers, Mies van der Rohe and Kandinsky, and by the end of the Leigh era
Park was convinced that art teaching at Bennington accepted the Bauhaus
dictum that form in the modern world emerges from 'material and
function rather than from a borrowed historical source'." Bennington in the Beginning by Thomas Brockway
