120 West 86th V 27 N 1 second decade of the twenty-first century, van de Velde presents a model of adaptability in uncertain times. Moreover, he was an international figure who rose to prominence in the media environment of international exhibitions and illustrated periodicals that he used cannily to promote his brand. But perhaps what makes his work compelling is, as Kuenzli suggests, that his notion of art “elicits in the viewer a sense of connection to vital forces that lie beyond the self” (197). Amy F. Ogata Amy F. Ogata is professor of art history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America, and Fredun Shapur: Playing with Design. She also coedited Swedish Wooden Toys. Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics Elizabeth Otto Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. 296 pp.; 55 color and 26 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 ISBN 9780262043298 The year 2019 was a blockbuster for the Bauhaus. It marked the centenary of the foundation of the school of art and architecture in Weimar with much fanfare. From Tokyo to Los Angeles, Eisenhütten- stadt to Lagos, myriad new exhibitions and publica- tions aimed to both further canonize the Bauhaus as a lynchpin of twentieth-century modernism and update our perspective on the school’s legacy. Elizabeth Otto was kept quite busy in the year of the Bauhaus, with an exhibition and several publica- tions that each sought to tell new histories of the school. An exhibition and catalogue that she coorga- nized in Erfurt with Patrick Rössler, Kai Uwe Schierz, and Miriam Krautwurst, and two separate volumes— one coedited and the other coauthored, both also with Rössler—highlight in particular the contri- butions of understudied (or practically unknown) women at the school. Indeed, the work of Otto over the past fifteen years has been integral, together with scholars such as Rössler, Ulrike Müller, and Anja Baumhoff, for establishing the place of female Bauhäuslerinnen alongside their male counterparts, the latter of whom have tended to take up all the