Main entry:

Ward, Janet, 1963-

Title & Author:

Weimar surfaces : urban visual culture in 1920s Germany / Janet Ward.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

Description:

xvi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Weimar and now ; 27

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval -- Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum -- Weimar Surfaces Now -- Tactility in the City -- Exhibiting Superficies -- Philosophies of Counterfeit -- Resistances to Weimar Surface -- Surface, Academy, and World -- Functionalist Facades: The Reformation of Weimar Architecture -- The Building's New Face -- Decoration Do's and Don'ts -- Brave New World -- Glass Culture -- The Pains of Tabula Rasa -- Surface Art at Home -- Fashioning the Female Body -- Electric Stimulations: The Shock of the New Objectivity in Weimar Advertising -- Advertising as Power -- Electric Modernity -- The Architecture of Light -- Shock Treatments -- "Light Lures People," -- Rejecting the Modern -- The Embrace of the Avant-Garde -- Postmodernity and the Space of Advertising -- Into the Mouth of the Moloch: Weimar Surface Culture Goes to the Movies -- From Caligari-Effect to Film-Set Omnipotence -- Kracauer versus the Weimar Film City -- Celebratory Film Streets -- The Weimar Movie Palaces: Facades on Facades -- "The Total Artwork of Effects," -- Cinema and the Secularization of Ritual -- The Display Window: Designs and Desires of Weimar Consumerism -- The Phantasmagoria of Selling -- Through the Looking Glass -- The Opening in the Wall -- Window Techniques -- The Display Window as Mechanical-Age Artwork -- Transparencies of Truth and Lie -- Mannequins on Both Sides of the Glass -- The Murderer at the Window -- Post-Wall Re-Creations -- Selected Weimar Periodicals and Newspapers.

Summary:

This 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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ISBN:

0520222989 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520222984 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520222997 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520222991 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

BMBF-Statusseminar
Bibel Philemonbrief
Arts, German 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) Germany.
Popular culture Germany.
Popular culture Germany Influence.
Arts allemands 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique) Allemagne.
Culture populaire Allemagne Influence.
Culture populaire Allemagne.
Popular culture Influence
Arts, German
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Popular culture
Geschichte
Kultur
Kunst
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
Künste
Stadt
Stadtbild
Weimarer Republik
Architektur
Ästhetik
kunst.
stadscultuur.
bouwkunst.
moderniseme (cultuur)
Arts Alemanya S. XX.
Modernisme (Art) Alemanya.
Cultura popular Alemanya.
Arts, Modern 20th century Germany.
Germany History 1918-1933.
Allemagne Histoire 1918-1933.
Germany
Deutschland
Duitsland.
Alemanya Història 1918-1933, República de Weimar.
Geschichte 1918-1933
Modernism Germany 1920-1930.
Popular culture Germany 1920-1930.
Art Germany 1920-1930.
Influence.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Weimar and now ; 27.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214879
Call No.: NX550.A1 W3 2001
Status: Available