Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933"The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's accession to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. John Willett here provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia and left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war."--Back cover. |
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... L'Esprit Nouveau ' 65 seminal books on architecture , painting , town planning and interior design , but also made their message part of a broad yet consistent approach to modern life and the arts such as no other movement of the time ...
... L'Esprit Nouveau ' 65 seminal books on architecture , painting , town planning and interior design , but also made their message part of a broad yet consistent approach to modern life and the arts such as no other movement of the time ...
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... L'Esprit Nouveau no . 8 , later taken into Le Corbusier's Towards a New Architecture 1922 , English edition 1926 ) . Below : Towards the mobile home . Temporary housing devised in the war , and made by the Voisin aircraft firm . From L' ...
... L'Esprit Nouveau no . 8 , later taken into Le Corbusier's Towards a New Architecture 1922 , English edition 1926 ) . Below : Towards the mobile home . Temporary housing devised in the war , and made by the Voisin aircraft firm . From L' ...
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... L'Esprit Nouveau no.22 three million inhabitants , shown at the 1922 Salon d'Automne , remained a project only , with its tower blocks , urban motorways and generous open spaces , as did the architectural exhibit mounted by Van Doesburg ...
... L'Esprit Nouveau no.22 three million inhabitants , shown at the 1922 Salon d'Automne , remained a project only , with its tower blocks , urban motorways and generous open spaces , as did the architectural exhibit mounted by Van Doesburg ...
Contents
CONTENTS Apologia and plan | 7 |
Post mortem | 13 |
War and revolution 191420 | 17 |
Copyright | |
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