Berlin in the 1920s-anglais: Ba - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836550504 ISBN 13 : 9783836550505

Editeur : Taschen GmbH, 2017

Synopsis

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 Höch'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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rainer Metzger studied art history, history, and German literature in Munich. In 1994, he earned his Ph.D. on the subject of Dan Graham, and subsequently worked as a fine arts journalist for the Viennese newspaper Der Standard. He has written numerous books on art, including volumes on van Gogh and Chagall. Since 2004, he has worked as Professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Fue la década de los audaces cuadros expresionistas, de la obra de arte total de la Bauhaus, de los bailes de travestidos, de la película Metropolis y de Marlene Dietrich. Desde concurridos cines hasta animados clubes de jazz, descubra el espíritu libre del Berlín de los años veinte del siglo XX a través del diseño, la moda, el cine y mucho más.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Taschen GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836550504
• ISBN 13: 9783836550505
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 95
• Éditeur: Metzger Rainer, Burmeister Ralf, Niovotny Maik, Zitzlsperger Ulrike
• Coordonnées du fabricant: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Allemagne