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Germany of the 1920's offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920's Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.

Popular culture --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Arts, German --- Aesthetics --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Germany --- Weimar Republic, Germany, 1918-1933 --- History --- Influence. --- Arts, German -- 20th century.. --- Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany.. --- Popular culture -- Germany -- Influence.. --- Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. --- 1920s. --- 20th century. --- advertising. --- architecture. --- consumer history. --- consumerism. --- contemporary history. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- european history. --- german film. --- german history. --- germany. --- history buff. --- metropolis. --- metropolitan. --- modern history. --- modern world. --- modernity. --- occupation. --- postwar. --- social studies. --- urban. --- visual culture. --- visual. --- wartime. --- weimer. --- wwi.