Form and Economy in the German Werkbund, 1907-1914
Author : Frederic Jonathan Schwartz
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Frederic Jonathan Schwartz
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1994
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300068986
During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design in the light of the technological and economic developments of modernity. This work explores the ideology and aesthetic positions in the debates among those who comprised the Werkbund.
Author : Moritz Föllmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108833543
Presents fresh approaches to the history of capitalism in the context of Weimar and Nazi Germany.
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Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History, Modern
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Author : John V. Maciuika
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521790048
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Author : Martin Ignatius Gaughan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783039109005
This book examines the responses of visual artists, including architects, designers and photographers, to the technological and social modernisation of Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It investigates how these aspects of the modernising process inform both the subject matter and formal innovations of their work. The study analyses how these visual practices were not just the concerns of isolated and enclosed art worlds but had wider social resonances, ranging from the debates concerning the reformist objectives of the Deutscher Werkbund (1907) to the National Socialist ideological onslaught on modernist culture culminating in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibitions of 1937. Many of the artists encountered here were radicalised by the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the November 1918 Revolution in Germany, experiences which effected change in their conceptualising of cultural production and its social function: their modes of working, however, would also set challenging markers for what forms art might take for the twentieth century. The book is, therefore, both a study of art in complex political and sociocultural contexts and a reflection on how engagement with a social imagination can challenge a tradition based on the assumptions of individual imaginings.
Author : Robin Schuldenfrei
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1400890489
While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. In a period of social unrest and extreme wealth disparity between the common worker and those at the helm of capitalist enterprises generating immense profits, architects envisioned modern designs providing solutions for a more equitable future. Robin Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day. This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in an entirely different light, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent to modernism's promotion and consumption.
Author : R. Stephen Sennott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781579584344
For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.
Author : Annika Mombauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521791014
A study of the influence of German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke, 1906-1914.