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Author Ward, Janet, 1963-

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Weimar and now ; 27
Weimar and now ; 27.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This 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.
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 Arts, German -- 20th century.
Arts, German.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Germany.
Popular culture -- Germany -- Influence.
Popular culture.
Germany -- History -- 1918-1933.
History.
Chronological Term 1918-1933
1900 - 1999
Indexed Term Humaniora Film.
Humaniora Kunst.
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ward, Janet, 1963- Weimar surfaces. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520222989 (DLC) 00055963 (OCoLC)44468782
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