Weber offers a crash course in the Bauhaus itself. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, it was “a groundbreaking school and laboratory for modernism,” Weber writes, promulgating design that offered both ease and beauty. ... But this is what we should demand of our critics, that they look deeply, with a single-minded focus. Like most of us, I’ve looked at my iPhone countless times; having read this book, I now feel I’ve truly seen the thing.
Emily Bernard is the author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine and editor of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor will be published on March 26th by W.W. Norton & Co.