Berlin : the twenties / Rainer Metzger ; Christian Brandstätter, picture editor.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Berlin. English
Main Author: Metzger, Rainer
Other Authors: Brandstätter, Christian
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Language and/or Writing System:
Translation of: Berlin : die Zwanzigerjahre : Kunst und Kultur 1918-1933.
Published: New York : Abrams, 2007.
Subjects:
Arts and society > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Berlin (Germany) > Civilization > 20th century.
Berlin (Germany) > History > 1918-1945.
Physical Description:400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Rapid growth and excess
  • The November vanishing point: revolution and reaction
  • War and peace: Expressionism and Dada
  • Vile circumstances: the aesthetics of Verism
  • Unity and purity: utopias, collectives and futurisms
  • The metropolis of the modern
  • The cult and culture of superficiality: new objectivity
  • Eternity in transience: Berlin and the other modernity
  • Four million Berliners cannot be ignored: the argument of the masses
  • The capital of the Reich, or, how was it possible?