Art and politics in the Weimar period : the new sobriety, 1917-1933
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Art and politics in the Weimar period : the new sobriety, 1917-1933
Da Capo Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-263) and index
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The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period , John Willett 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, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.
Table of Contents
Apologia and Plan Voices From Underground A Story of Contrasts * War and Revolution 1914-1920 People in the War Counter-Offensive Revolution and the Arts: Russia 1917-20 Revolution and the Arts: Germany 1918-20 Paris Postwar * The Turning Point 1921-3: Politics, Radio, Cinema, The NEP, IAH, Rapallo German Stabilization, Russians in Berlin, Berlin Constructivism, International Constructivism The Bauhaus at Weimar, Grosz and Political Art, A New Naturalism End of Theatrical Expressionism, La Cration du Monde Hindermith, Mechanical Instruments Architectural Beginnings, End of Paris Dada, Summary * The New Sobriety 1924-8 Weimar Builds Impersonal Art Neue Saschlichkeit The Dessau Bauhaus Modern Architecture Living Design The Camera Eye Theatre for the Machine Age Music for the Times Retrograde Symptoms * The Crunch 1929-30: Economic Collapse, Death of Stresemann Proletarian art Organizations and the Five-Year Plan, Economy and Reaction in Germany Sacking of Hannes Meyer, the ARBKD, Transformation in the Theatre End of the Silent Film, Book Clubs and War Novels Epic Structures and Light Prose * Kampf and its Illusions 1930-33 Weimar Crumples The Lost Revolution * Post Mortem Looking Back Today
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