Berlin in the Twenties - Art and Culture 1918-1933 /anglais

Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2007 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Limited Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Berlin in the 1920s was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times The and was a vigorous melting pot of radical new ideas and concepts in every field. Comprising essays on the key movements and figures of the era. this book presents a readable portrait of this astonishing cultural ferment and its most important protagonists. Contents: The changing face of Berlin: a decade of rapid expansionp. 23The November vanishing point: revolution and reactionp. 59War and peace: Expressionism and Dadap. 77Vile circumstances: the aesthetics of verismp. 103Unity and purity: utopias. collectives and futurismsp. 125Metropolis of the modern: detachment and indifferencep. 155Cult and culture of the superficial: the new obje...