Berlin, a haunting vision of the twentieth centuryâ€™s first modern city, is a cultural history filled with 400 shockingly fresh and romantic photographs, paintings, and other images.

Berlin: The Twenties

Berlin, a haunting vision of the twentieth centuryâ€™s first modern city, is a cultural history filled with 400 shockingly fresh and romantic photographs, paintings, and other images.

In the brief years between the twentieth centuryâ€™s two cataclysmic world wars, the modern metropolis was invented in Berlin. Life in Berlin was a cabaret, and Marlene Dietrich, Thomas Mann, Alfred Einstein, or Joseph Goebbels might be seated at the next table. The avant-garde thrived there. The mass media magnified the impact of everything from fads to political ideas. Subcultures and club cultures nurtured gender-bending fashions and lifestyles. Architects and designers struggled to free themselves from the past. In the background beat the new rhythms of urban experience: the coming and going of the latest planes and trains and automobiles, the clacking of typewriters in vast offices, the jazz band that never sleeps. Berlin: The Twenties is a book for history buffs, travelers, and lovers of modern art and design.
Country USA
Brand Abrams Books
Manufacturer Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-05-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780810993297

Berlin: The Twenties