The Color of Modernism: Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany

by Deborah Ascher Barnstone

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was white-pure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. The Color of Modernism explodes this myth of whiteness by offering a riot of color in modern architectural treatises, polemics, and buildings.

Focusing on Germany in the early 20th century, one of modernism's most foundational and influential periods, it examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350251348
• ISBN13: 9781350251342
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"