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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450155603321

Autore

Ward Janet <1963->

Titolo

Weimar surfaces [[electronic resource] ] : urban visual culture in 1920s Germany / / Janet Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-92473-8

1-59734-992-5

1-282-35506-6

9786612355066

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Weimar and now ; ; 27

Disciplina

306.4/7/094309042

Soggetti

Arts, German - 20th century

Modernism (Aesthetics) - Germany

Popular culture - Germany - Influence

Electronic books.

Germany History 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Appendix: Selected Weimar Periodicals and Newspapers -- Notes -- Illustration Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Germany of the 1920's 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 1920's Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.