Weimar on the Pacific

2008-08-08 Art

Author : Ehrhard Bahr
Release : 2008-08-08
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Weimar on the Pacific written by Ehrhard Bahr. This book was released on 2008-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives.

Weimar on the Pacific

2007-05-02 Art

Author : Ehrhard Bahr
Release : 2007-05-02
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 288/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Weimar on the Pacific written by Ehrhard Bahr. This book was released on 2007-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ehrhard Bahr's sophisticated introduction to the Los Angeles of the émigrés from Nazi Germany is a quintessential 'Hollywood' book: brilliant in casting, sunny in disposition, with hidden film noir touches. Bahr's reading of the central books of this world, by Bert Brecht, Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, his insights into Fritz Lang's films and Arnold Schoenberg's operas, make this a major contribution to American, German and world culture."—Sander L. Gilman, author of Bertolt Brecht's Berlin “At long last, émigré Los Angeles has been interpreted from the inside by an accomplished scholar of modern German culture. Weimar on the Pacific is a study of relevance to California, the nation, and contemporary Europe.”—Kevin Starr, Professor of History, University of Southern California

The Weimar Republic

1993-09 History

Author : Detlev Peukert
Release : 1993-09
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Weimar Republic written by Detlev Peukert. This book was released on 1993-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of Kolb's compact book is devoted to a "Historical Survey," chronologically divided at the conventional watersheds of 1923-24 and 1929-30. A briefer second part, a historiographical essay in seven topical chapters, is followed by a seven-page chronology, a 676-item classified and topical bibliography, and an index. The bibliography, updated to February 1987, includes some English-language titles not in the original German edition, and is a list of tremendous value. Frequent references to individual entries (as well as to some works not found there) tie the bibliography to the historiographical essay, which is characterized by fair and judicious appraisal of interpretations of the period, even when Kolb clearly disagrees. There is a chapter on the revolution of 1918 and its aftermath in the first section, and one on art and mass culture in the second; each section of the survey also has one chapter focusing on foreign policy, and one on domestic developments.

Weimar Radicals

2009-04-01 History

Author : Timothy Scott Brown
Release : 2009-04-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Weimar Radicals written by Timothy Scott Brown. This book was released on 2009-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between two defining ideologies of the twentieth century. The struggle between Fascism and Communism is situated within a broader conversation among right- and left-wing publicists, across the Youth Movement and in the “National Bolshevik” scene, thus revealing the existence of a discourse on revolutionary legitimacy fought according to a set of common assumptions about the qualities of the ideal revolutionary. Highlighting the importance of a masculine-militarist politics of youth revolt operative in both Marxist and anti-Marxist guises, Weimar Radicals forces us to re-think the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of the distinctive radicalism of the interwar era.

Weimar Surfaces

2001-04-04 Architecture

Author : Janet Ward
Release : 2001-04-04
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Weimar Surfaces written by Janet Ward. This book was released on 2001-04-04. 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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