Taschen Gmbh - 1920s Berlin - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 H ch's The Journalists; Lotte Jacobi's Hands on Typewriter; Otto Dix's Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden; Peter Behrens's project of the Alexanderplatz; 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.
Title: 1920s Berlin
Brand: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836550505
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 4/13/2017
Series: Basic Art
Category: Social & Cultural History