Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Bahr, Ehrhard.

Title Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Bahr.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Series Weimar and now ; 41
Weimar and now ; 41.
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.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
California -- Los Angeles.
Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
Germans.
Intellectual life.
Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
Jews, German.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles.
Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Germans -- Intellectual life.
Jews, German -- Intellectual life.
Deutsche.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Weimar on the Pacific Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520251281 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007000207
ISBN 9780520933804 ebook
052093380X
9780520251281 cloth alkaline paper
0520251288 cloth alkaline paper
9780520257955
1282359266
0520257952
9781282359260
Standard No. 9780520257955