TY - BOOK ID - 77904514 TI - Weimar surfaces : urban visual culture in 1920s Germany PY - 2001 SN - 0520924738 1597349925 1282355066 9786612355066 9780520924734 0585466084 9780585466088 9780520222984 0520222989 9780520222991 0520222997 9781597349925 9781282355064 6612355069 0520420659 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Popular culture KW - Modernism (Aesthetics) KW - Arts, German KW - Aesthetics KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Germany KW - Weimar Republic, Germany, 1918-1933 KW - History KW - Influence. KW - Arts, German -- 20th century.. KW - Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany.. KW - Popular culture -- Germany -- Influence.. KW - Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. KW - 1920s. KW - 20th century. KW - advertising. KW - architecture. KW - consumer history. KW - consumerism. KW - contemporary history. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural studies. KW - european history. KW - german film. KW - german history. KW - germany. KW - history buff. KW - metropolis. KW - metropolitan. KW - modern history. KW - modern world. KW - modernity. KW - occupation. KW - postwar. KW - social studies. KW - urban. KW - visual culture. KW - visual. KW - wartime. KW - weimer. KW - wwi. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904514 AB - 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. ER -