Weimar Surfaces
Douban
ISBN: 9780520222991
author:
Janet Ward
publishing house:
University of California Press
publication date: 2001
-4
price: USD 22.95
number of pages: 374
Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
overview
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.