| #695498 in Books | Janet Ward | 2001-04-02 | 2001-04-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 369 pages | Weimar Surfaces Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany||3 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Ever hear of a period?|By Atlantan Reader|This could have been a great book had the author not insisted in writing in an overly dense style that did more to hide her main points than illuminate them. If you like reading convoluted ten clause sentences then you'll love this book. Again, the issue here isn't so much the theory or arguments contained within the book, the problem||"This outstanding book has retrieved all the luminous qualities of its subject matter to produce an astonishing revelation of gleaming appearances on splendid display. It is unrivalled by any previous study." - Marcus Bullock, coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Sele
Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) | Janet Ward. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
