Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture

by Lutz Koepnick

In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window--in both a literal and a figurative sense--as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity.

Koepnick examines the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture--in painting, photography,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884896
• ISBN13: 9780801884894
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher