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Material Modernity - Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Paperback)
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Material Modernity - Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic (Paperback)
Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts
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Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art,
design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both
the rise of new media and the re-fashioning of old media. Weimar
became famous for the explosion of creative ingenuity across the
arts in Germany, due to experiments with new techniques (including
the move towards abstraction in painting and sculpture) and
inventive work in such new media as paper and plastic, which
utilized both new and old methods of art production. Individual
chapters in this book consider inventions such as the camera and
materials like celluloid, examine the role of new materials
including concrete composites in opening up fresh avenues in the
plastic arts, and relate advances in the understanding of color
perception and psychology to an increased interest in visual
perception and the latent potential of color as both architectural
ornament and carrier of emotional force in space. While art
historians usually argue that experimentation in the Weimar
Republic was the result of an intentional rejection of traditional
modes of expression in the conscious attempt to invent a modern art
and architecture unshackled from historic media and methods, this
volume shows that the drivers for innovation were often far more
complex and nuanced. It first of all describes how the material
shortages precipitated by the First World War, along with the
devastation to industrial infrastructure and disruption of historic
trade routes, affected art, as did a spirit of experimentation that
permeated interwar German culture. It then analyzes new challenges
in the 1920s to artistic conventions in traditional art modes like
painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, textiles, and
print-making and simultaneously probes the likely causes of
innovative new methods of artistic production that appeared, such
as photomontage, assemblage, mechanical art, and multi-media art.
In doing so, Material Modernity fills a significant gap in Weimar
scholarship and art history literature.
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