Art & Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933

By John Willett

Book Overview

The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's accession to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394739914
• ISBN13: 9780394739915
• Release Date: August 1980
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

The pictures alone are worth it.

I am not sure of the purpose of the book, other than a chronicle of the time from 1917 through 1933. Even though the focus is on the Weimar Republic, the articles include the infusion of Soviet culture and some U.S. technical influence. To describe the whole book here would take time and end up looking like a whole book for the review. So, I slowed down and concentrated on the cinema as I am fairly familiar with some of that time. The section on the cinema moved very fast and was more like name-dropping than it was describing its purpose or what we were looking at. So, the book is probably better purchased for its pictures than it is for what it has to say.