The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short

The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short

by JohnWillett (Author)

Synopsis

Available again, this cinematic montage of images evokes the Weimar period with originality and shocking vividness. The Weimar Republic established a distinctive new culture that sprang from the roots of the Modern Movement. Cut short by the rise of Hitler in 1933, it represented a unique effort to bring into common use the technical and artistic discoveries of the great pre-war pioneers from the Cubists to Le Corbusier. The resulting strains of revolutionary and communist art had the greatest influence on artists, writers, musicians, architects, photographers, designers and filmmakers.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 160
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 01 Sep 1987

ISBN 10: 0500273111
ISBN 13: 9780500273111
Book Overview: 'Succinctly accurate and richly illustrated ... it would be difficult to imagine a more comprehensive introductory study' History Today

Media Reviews
'This photomontage with its accompanying informative text provides a helpful insight into an exhilarating, maddening and, finally, terrible age' - Financial Times
'A profusely illustrated exhibition between boards showing the results of this brief period of creative exuberance...an excellent, concise pictorial history' - Steven Heller, New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
John Willett (1917 - 2002) was a British translator, editor and scholar, who is well known for his translation of Bertolt Brecht.