Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture (Out of Print)

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. 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.

 

Title: Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture
Publisher: Open Editions, 2012
Author: Ian Whittlesea
Photographer: -
Graphic Design: David Blamey
Format: Softcover
Size: 19.1 x 13.3 cm, 120 pages
ISBN: 9780949004192
Edition: -