Material Modernity: Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Visual Cultures and German Contexts)

Barnstone, Deborah Ascher [Editor]; Makela, Maria [Editor]; Barnstone, Deborah Ascher [Series Editor]; Haakenson, Thomas O. [Series Editor];

ISBN 10: 1350228737 / ISBN 13: 9781350228733

Editore: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022

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Riassunto:

In light of the rise of new media and the re-fashioning of old, this ambitious volume explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic.

Informazioni sugli autori: Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor and Head of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia. Barnstone is a licensed architect in Germany, holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, and holds a PhD from TU Delft. Her recent monograph works include Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-1933 (2016), Art and Resistance in Germany (2018), and The Break with the Past: Avant-garde Architecture in Germany, 1910-1925 (2019). She co-edits Bloomsbury's Visual Cultures and German Contexts book series.

Maria Makela is Professor Emerita of the California College of the Arts, USA. She holds a PhD in art history from Stanford University. Makela has published widely in exhibition catalogues, edited anthologies, and periodicals on topics as diverse as fashion, rayon, New Objectivity, Dada, Expressionism, film, nationalism, sexology, and typology. Much of her research has focused on gender and sexuality in visual culture. She is the author of The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich (1990) and co-editor of Of Truths Impossible to Put in Words: Max Beckmann Contextualized (2009). In 1996 she co-curated a traveling retrospective of the work of Hannah Höch and co-authored the accompanying catalog, The Photomontages of Hannah Höch. Makela serves on the editorial board of German Quarterly and on the advisory board of the Visual Cultures and German Contexts book series, which publishes under the Bloomsbury Visual Arts imprint.

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Titolo: Material Modernity: Innovations in Art, ...
Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: As New