Sunday, May 4, 2008

Who is the woman with the kitchen...?

She is a sort of everywoman, possibly the impregnated servant for the household during the harsh reality of post ww1 germany. Flowers were used not as decoration, but to show and describe the functionality of the human body's organs. Heart of muscle done with tulips, white and grey matter with neuron activity utilizing Agapanthus. Pulminary activity hinted at with Kangaroo Paws. This woman is holding a cut plant(wilting) in her hand to attempt to show the objective reality of cut flowers--they wilt and die. New Objectivity (or Objectivism) or New Disspassion(Neue Sachlichkeit), was the Art and Literature movement of this time(Otto Dix, Bertold Brecht). The Frankfurt Kitchen was part of the corresponding architecture movement, Nues Bauen(New Building). Reconstructing, post ww1, designers believed that the world was at the start of a new era and that their work might transform life. Inspired by a desire to utilize technical advances in science and technology and a desire for social progress, Grete Lihotzky worked on this kitchen design that transformed the work of women and still is utilzed and holds up today.

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