Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

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. Acknowledgments......Page 16 Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: A Retrospective Retrieval......Page 18 1. Functionalist Façades: The Reformation of Weimar Architecture......Page 62 2. Electric Stimulations: The Shock of the New Objectivity in Weimar Advertising......Page 109 3. Into the Mouth of the Moloch: Weimar Surface Culture Goes to the Movies......Page 159 4. The Display Window: Designs and Desires of Weimar Consumerism......Page 208 Appendix: Selected Weimar Periodicals and Newspapers Appendix......Page 258 Notes......Page 262 Illustration Sources......Page 338 Index......Page 342 It is in our time that the Enlightenment project has reached its ultimate implosion. Janet Ward. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.