Metzger, Rainer.

Berlin the twenties / [[Book] :] Rainer Metzger ; Christian Brandstčatter, picture editor. - New York : Abrams, 2007. - 400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

The changing face of Berlin: a decade of rapid expansion -- 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 -- Metropolis of the modern: detachment and indifference -- Cult and culture of the superficial: the new objectivity -- Eternity in transience: Berlin and the "other modernity" -- The argument of the masses: four million people cannot be ignored! -- The heart of the Reich: Hitler's capital.

All age.


Translation of: Berlin : die Zwanzigerjahre : Kunst und Kultur 1918-1933.

9780810993297 (hardcover) 0810993295

2006100746


Arts and society--History--Germany--Berlin--20th century.


Berlin (Germany)--Civilization--20th century.
Berlin (Germany)--History--1918-1945.

DD866 / .M47 2007

943.155085

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