Berlin in the Twenties

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BERLIN IN THE TWENTES ART AND CULTURE 12K18-193S
Rainer Metzger
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In the brief period between the twentieth century's two cataclysmic world wars the modern city was invented in Berlin. It was a vibrant metropolis of night-people, visionaries, thinkers and bohemians — a place filled with intrigue and decadence, where vice and virtue abounded in equal measure. Like one huge salon, it became the incomparable centre of European intellectual life where the arts and sciences met and flourished.
Subcultures and club cultures invented gender-bending lifestyles and fashions to match. 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. Daily life throbbed with new rhythms: the coming and going of the latest planes and trains and automobiles; the clacking of typewriters in vast offices; the jazz band that never sleeps.
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Fülszöveg

BERLIN IN THE TWENTES ART AND CULTURE 12K18-193S
Rainer Metzger
Jss
In the brief period between the twentieth century's two cataclysmic world wars the modern city was invented in Berlin. It was a vibrant metropolis of night-people, visionaries, thinkers and bohemians — a place filled with intrigue and decadence, where vice and virtue abounded in equal measure. Like one huge salon, it became the incomparable centre of European intellectual life where the arts and sciences met and flourished.
Subcultures and club cultures invented gender-bending lifestyles and fashions to match. 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. Daily life throbbed with new rhythms: the coming and going of the latest planes and trains and automobiles; the clacking of typewriters in vast offices; the jazz band that never sleeps.
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. But also of lesser known yet equally remarkable figures — Count Harry Kessler, Giséle Freund, Hannah Hóch 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. Berlin in the 1920s was not simply a time and a place, but a state of mind; it was here that the modernist dream of art and life being one and the same came closer to reality than anywhere else, before or since.
With 398 illustrations, 90 in colour Vissza