Weimar surfaces : urban visual culture in 1920s Germany / Janet Ward.

ISBN:

9780520924734

9780585466088

9780520222984

9780520222991

9781597349925

9781282355064

Title:

Weimar surfaces : urban visual culture in 1920s Germany / Janet Ward.

Author:

Ward, Janet, 1963-

Personal Author:

Ward, Janet, 1963-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Weimar and now ; 27

Contents:

Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: A Retrospective Retrieval 1. Functionalist Façades: The Reformation of Weimar Architecture 2. Electric Stimulations: The Shock of the New Objectivity in Weimar Advertising 3. Into the Mouth of the Moloch: Weimar Surface Culture Goes to the Movies 4. The Display Window: Designs and Desires of Weimar Consumerism.

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Subject Term:

Arts, German -- 20th century.

Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany.

Geographic Term:

Germany -- History -- 1918-1933.

Allemagne -- Histoire -- 1918-1933.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2001

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Summary

Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.

Author Notes

Ward Janet :

Janet Ward is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the coeditor of Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (1997), co-editor of the forthcoming German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity (2001) and is currently writing a book on post-Wall architecture in Berlin