Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

by Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Although the Breslau arts scene was one of the most vibrant in all of Weimar-era Germany, it has largely disappeared from memory. Studies of the influence of Weimar culture on modernism have focused almost exclusively on Berlin and the Dessau Bauhaus, yet the advances that occurred in Breslau affected nearly every intellectual field, forming the basis for aesthetic modernism internationally and having an enduring impact on visual art and architecture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472119907
• ISBN13: 9780472119905
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"