Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German

Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890–1920 (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity)
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Before the Bauhaus reevaluates the political, architectural, and artistic cultures of pre-World War I Germany. As contradictory and conflict-ridden as the German Second Reich itself, the world of architects, craftsmen and applied-arts "artists" were not immune to the expansionist, imperialist, and capitalist struggles that transformed Germany in the quarter-century leading up to the First World War. In this study, John Maciuika brings together architectural and design history, political history, social and cultural geography. He substantially revises our understanding of the roots of the Bauhaus and, by extension, the historical roots of twentieth-century German architecture and design. His book sheds new light on hotly contested debates pertaining to the history of Germany in the pre-World War I era, notably the issues surrounding "modernity" and "anti-modernity" in Wilhelmine Germany, the character and effectiveness of the government administration, and the role played by the nation's most important architects, members of the rising bourgeois class, in challenging the traditional aristocracy at the top of the new German economic and social order.
Country USA
Brand Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer Cambridge University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 129 Halftones, unspecified
ReleaseDate 2008-04-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780521728225

Country	USA
Brand	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	129 Halftones, unspecified
ReleaseDate	2008-04-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780521728225

Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890–1920 (Modern Architecture and Cultural Identity)