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Beyond the Bauhaus : cultural modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 / Deborah Ascher Barnstone
(Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany)
Publisher | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
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Year | [2016] |
Size | xi, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Authors | *Barnstone, Deborah Ascher author |
Subjects | LCSH:Wrocław (Poland) -- Civilization -- 20th century
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LCSH:Wrocław (Poland) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Arts, German -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:City and town life -- Poland -- Wrocław -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Bauhaus -- Influence -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 All Subject Search |
Contents | Introduction: Breslau and the culture of the Weimar Republic Tradition and modernity : urban planning in Breslau Another way to understand modernism : Breslau Wohnung und Werkbund Ausstellung, 1929 The Breslau Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Dissemination of taste : Breslau collectors, arts associations, and museums Between idealism and realism : architecture in Breslau A nonideological modernism : Breslau artists in the 1920s Epilogue |
Notes | "The Breslau arts scene during the Weimar period was one of the most vibrant in all of Germany, yet it has disappeared from memory and historiography. Breslau was a key center for innovative artistic production during the Weimar Republic; recovery of its history will shed new light on German cultural dynamics in the 1920s. Such a study has art historical significance because of the incredible extent of innovation that occurred in almost every intellectual field, advances that formed the basis for aesthetic modernism internationally and continue to affect the course of visual art and architecture today. Architecture education, just one example in many, is still largely based on a combination of the Bauhaus model from the 1920s and the model developed at the Breslau Academy of Fine and Applied Art. The exploratory attitude encouraged in Weimar era arts endeavors, as opposed to the conformism of academic art, is still a core value promoted in contemporary art and architecture circles. Given the long-lasting infl Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index |
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ISBN | 9780472119905 |
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