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ZeitgeistThe 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 their hair short, and earned their own money.Featured works in this
vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Hoch's
Journalists; Lotte Jacobi's
Hands on the Typewriter; Otto Dix's
Portrait of Sylvia von Harden; Peter Behrens's
Project Alexanderplatz; and Josef von Sternberg's
The Blue Angel, starring Dietrich as cabaret performer Lola Lola. Along the way, we explore both the utopian yearnings and the more ominous economic and political realities which fueled the era's
escapist, idealistic, or reactionary masterworks. Behind the bright lights and glitter dresses, we see the inflation, factory labor, and fragile political consensus that lurked beneath this golden era and would eventually spell its savage end with the rise of National Socialism.
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