Berlin in the Twenties
Rainer Metzger

'Gloriously exhilarating ... a heart-stopping collection of faces and places to illustrate the fleeting pleasures and dreadful sadness of human experience' - The Sunday Telegraph'... a celebration of Berlin's glory years, a kind of family album of the world's most famous doomed Atlantis' - The Times Higher Education SupplementIn the brief period between the twentieth century's two cataclysmic world wars, Berlin was a vibrant metropolis - a place filled with intrigue and decadence, where vice and virtue abounded in equal measure. It became the centre of European intellectual life where the arts and sciences met and flourished.Subcultures and club cultures invented gender-bending lifestyles and fashions. Architects and designers struggled to free themselves from the past and planned for the needs of the future. There was a boom in popular artforms, from photography and cinema to cabaret and agitprop.Engaging and eminently readable, here is a compelling portrait of this astonishing cultural melting pot and its most important protagonists - personalities such as Max Reinhardt, Mies van der Rohe, Bertolt Brecht, Leni Riefenstahl and Walter Benjamin and less-known yet equally remarkable figures - Count Harry Kessler, Gisele Freund, Hannah Hoch and many more.With chapters on the key movements and creative spirits of the era, this book traces and illustrates the rise of an artistic and cultural milieu that bloomed brightly but all too briefly. It was here that the modernist dream of art and life being one came closer to reality than anywhere else, before or since.

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Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Albumy
ISBN: 978-0-500-51354-5
Liczba stron: 0