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Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany
Janet Ward
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Description for Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany
Paperback. 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. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 374 pages, 63 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; AM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544. Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. 374 pages, 64 b&w photographs. 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. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; AM; JFC. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 28. Weight: 568.
Germany of the 1920s 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 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.
Germany of the 1920s 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 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
374
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520222991
SKU
V9780520222991
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About Janet Ward
Janet Ward is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the coeditor of Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (1997), co-editor of the forthcoming German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity (2001) and is currently writing a book on post-Wall architecture in Berlin
Reviews for Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany
"This outstanding book has retrieved all the luminous qualities of its subject matter to produce an astonishing revelation of gleaming appearances on splendid display. It is unrivalled by any previous study." - Marcus Bullock, coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1913-26 "Weimar Surfaces creates provocative new connections between the historical constellations that found a privileged expression in Weimar Berlin and ... Read more