Berlin in the 1920s (Basic Art Series) HC TASCHEN 9783836550505 It was

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich’s rising star in theater and silent film. Between the paroxysms of two world wars, Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and thought. This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of Berlin’s Weimar age. Through exemplary works in painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic design, photography, and film, we uncover the innovations, ideas, and precious dreams that characterized this unique cultural window. We take in the jazz bars and dance halls
the crowded kinos and flapper fashion
the advances in technology and transport
the radio towers and rumbling trams and trains
the soaring buildings
the cinematic masterworks
and the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes, wore their hair short, and earned their own money. Featured works in this vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Hoch's The Journalists
Lotte Jacobi’s Hands on Typewriter
Otto Dix's Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden
Peter Behrens's project of theAlexanderplatz
and Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, starring Dietrich as cabaret performer Lola Lola. Along the way, we explore both the utopian yearnings and the more ominous economic and political realities which fueled the era's escapist, idealistic, or reactionary masterworks. Behind the bright lights and glitter dresses, we see the inflation, factory labor, and fragile political consensus that lurked beneath this golden era and would eventually spell its savage end with the rise of National Socialism.

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ISBN: 9783836550505
Язык: Английский
Объем: 96
Формат: Твёрдый,210х260
Издательство: TASCHEN
Год: 2017
Количество страниц: 96
Переплет: Твёрдый
Count: 1
Год публикации: 2017