Beyond the Bauhaus : Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 / Deborah Ascher Barnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Beyond the Bauhaus explores the polyvalent and contradictory nature of cultural production in Breslau in order to expand the cultural and geographic scope of Weimar history.

Contents:

1 Tradition and Modernity: Urban Planning in Breslau 22

2 Another Way to Understand Modernism: Breslau Wohnung und Werkbund Ausstellung 1929 51

3 The Breslau Academy of Fine and Applied Arts 81

4 Dissemination of Taste: Breslau Collectors, Arts Associations, and Museums 108

5 Between Idealism and Realism: Architecture in Breslau 133

6 A Nonideological Modernism: Breslau Artists in the 1920s 162.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Knowledge Unlatched Round 2

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103489

ISBN:

9780472119905

OCLC:

953488996

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access