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Both letters were written to be circulated and read aloud to assemblies; they are public acts in the form of private correspondence.","variants":[],"citedBy":["https://writesidesofhistory.com/the-investiture-controversy-power-struggles-in-medieval-germany/"],"citations":1},{"id":"gropius-bauhaus-manifesto-1919","type":"primary","author":"Walter Gropius","title":"Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar","publisher":null,"year":1919,"note":"The founding manifesto, with Feininger's cathedral woodcut, calling for a return to craft and to the building as the union of all the arts. It is expressionist and medievalising in tone, which is worth setting beside the machine-age Bauhaus of later reputation: the school changed its mind within four years.","variants":[],"citedBy":["https://writesidesofhistory.com/bauhaus-school-the-radical-experiment-that-shaped-modern-design/"],"citations":1},{"id":"gross-minutemen-and-their-world","type":"scholarly","author":"Robert A. 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