Mazdaznan Health and Breath Culture: First Six Exercises - Brossura

Ha'Nish, Otoman Zar-Adusht, M.D.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0949004197 ISBN 13: 9780949004192

Casa editrice: Open Editions, 2012

Riassunto

This book explores the intimate relationship between Mazdaznan, Johannes Itten and the Vorkurs (Preliminary or Foundation Course) at the Bauhaus, Weimar. It is a practical guide to performing the exercises that Itten taught at the Bauhaus and a celebration of a moment of mysticism at the heart of Modernism. At the start of the morning I brought my classes to mental and physical readiness for intensive work through relaxing, breathing, and concentrating exercises. The training of the body as an instrument of the mind is of the greatest importance for creative man. Johannes Itten Founded by the extraordinary Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha nish in Chicago at the start of the 20th century Mazdaznan was a religion and way of life. Dr. Ha nish is claimed to have been variously a genius, a shepherd, a typesetter, a magician and a fraud, as well as friend and inspiration to a bewildering variety of figures including Karl Marx, Haeckel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, H.G. Wells, Annie Besant and J. H. Kellogg. It is said that Edison named the first lightbulb Mazda in his honour and that Henry Ford attributed the dawn of the motor-age to Ha nish s influence. Mazdaznan s vegetarian diet, magnetic and electric sexual exchanges, breathing exercises and glandular theories were taken to Europe by its early disciples, flourishing in Switzerland, Germany and England between the wars. The Swiss artist and teacher Johannes Itten was a devout Mazdaznan and its exercises were an essential part of his courses at the Bauhaus. Health & Breath Culture has been newly illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with drawings of current Foundation students demonstrating the exercises. It is followed by a selection of found texts and images that go some way to explaining the beliefs and history of Mazdaznan.

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Ian Whittlesea's new publication Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture launched as part of the Stanley Picker Gallery's No Competition! offsite programme, taking place at the Barbican Centre London to accompany their major exhibition Bauhaus: Art as Life. The Swiss artist and teacher Johannes Itten famously led his Bauhaus students in a series of physical exercises before each day's work. A devout follower of the teachings of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, founder of the Mazdaznan religion, Itten would have based these exercises on Dr. Ha'nish's 1902 instruction manual Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture. Ian Whittlesea has produced a newly illustrated and annotated edition of Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture, together with a set of posters depicting Kingston University Art & Design Foundation Course students performing the original Mazdaznan exercises.

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• Editore: Open Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0949004197
• ISBN 13: 9780949004192
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 110
• Disegnatore: Whittlesea Ian