The Weimar Years - Willett John
A Culture Cut Short
KORTE INHOUD
The Weimar Republic established a distinctive new culture that sprang from the roots of the Modern Movement. Cut short by the rise of Hitler in 1933, it represented a unique effort to bring into common use the technical and artistic discoveries of the great pre-war pioneers from the Cubists to Le Corbusier. This unprecedented ferment was closely related to the political currents of the time: the resulting strains of revolutionary and communist art had the greatest influence on artists, writers, musicians, architects, photographers, designers and filmmakers. Many photographs, paintings, drawings and collages, books and film stills are presented in this book in an entirely novel way. John Willett combines a mass of little known and astonishing visual material to create a unique panorama of the times - from the initial utopian hopes to the hard-hearted yet still socially conscious sceptism of the second half of the 1920s, thence to the corrosive and corrupting effects of the political polarization that brough Hi...
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2011Uitgever: Thames & Hudson160 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 270x220ISBN-10: 0500273111ISBN-13: 9780500273111Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Reprinted. [Auteur: Willett, John] [Pagina's: 160] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London, Thames and Hudson] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short]
