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1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages). |
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polychrome. |
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text file |
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Weimar and now ; 41
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Weimar and now ; 41.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index. |
Contents |
The dialectic of modernism -- Art and its resistance to society: Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory -- Bertolt Brecht's California poetry: mimesis or modernism? -- The dialectic of modern science: Brecht's Galileo -- Epic theater versus film noir: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi film Hangmen also die -- California modern as immigrant modernism: architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler -- Between modernism and antimodernism: Franz Werfel -- Renegade modernism: Alfred Döblin's novel Karl and Rosa -- The political battleground of exile modernism: the Council for a Democratic Germany -- Evil Germany versus good Germany: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus -- A "True Modernist": Arnold Schoenberg -- Conclusion: The Weimar legacy of Los Angeles. |
Summary |
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
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California -- Los Angeles. |
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Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
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Germans. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
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Jews, German. |
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles. |
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Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life. |
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Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life. |
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. |
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Germans -- Intellectual life. |
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Jews, German -- Intellectual life. |
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Deutsche. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Weimar on the Pacific Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520251281 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007000207 |
ISBN |
9780520933804 ebook |
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052093380X |
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9780520251281 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520251288 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520257955 |
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1282359266 |
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0520257952 |
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9781282359260 |
Standard No. |
9780520257955 |
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