Weimar Surfaces

Weimar Surfaces
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 0520924738
ISBN-13 : 9780520924734
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Book Synopsis Weimar Surfaces by : Janet Ward

Download or read book Weimar Surfaces written by Janet Ward and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-04-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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