Taschen Basic Art Series 2.0 1920s BERLIN

  • Weight: 1.36 lb
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.5 x 1"
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Number of Pages: 96

Zeitgeist The roaring twenties in Berlin It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich’s rising star in theater and silent film. Between the paroxysms of two world wars, Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and thought. This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of Berlin’s Weimar age. Through exemplary works in painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic design, photography, and film, we uncover the innovations, ideas, and precious dreams that characterized this unique cultural window. We take in the jazz bars and dance halls; the crowded kinos and flapper fashion; the advances in technology and transport; the radio towers and rumbling trams and trains; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks; and the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes, wore t...

Measurements

Width10.5 in27 cm
Depth3.5 in9 cm
Height12.5 in32 cm
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