Deborah Ascher Barnstone

The Break with the Past

Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 - 1925

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The German interwar avant-garde was one of the primary forces driving European cultural innovation and modernism between 1918 and 1933, innovations that still influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, almost 100 years later. This study will pursue several important, interrelated questions throughout the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780367207984
• ISBN-10: 0367207982
• Artikelnr.: 56971987

Autorenporträt

Deborah Ascher Barnstone is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Architecture in Transition: Germany's Avant-garde
before the First World I and the Weimar Republic
2. Bruno Taut: Before the War
3. Bruno Taut: War Years Resistance
4. Bruno Taut: Leading the Avant-garde
5. Walter Gropius: Career Beginnings
6. Walter Gropius: War Service on the Western Front
7. Walter Gropius: Rise to Prominence
8. Erich Mendelsohn: Born Revolutionary
9. Erich Mendelsohn: The War Years
10. Erich Mendelsohn: After the War
11. Hans Scharoun: Bremen and Berlin
12. Hans Scharoun: On the Eastern Front
13. Hans Scharoun: The Interwar Years
14. Art and the Revolution