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Beyond the Wall. Art and Artifacts from the GDR (English, German, Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
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Beyond the Wall. Art and Artifacts from the GDR (English, German, Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
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For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West
Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation,
symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers,
friends, and families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende Museum
in Los Angeles, California, is named after the period of change
following the wall's destruction. It was established in 2002 to
study the visual and material culture of the former Eastern Bloc,
and, with physical and psychic distance, to foster multiple
perspectives on this multilayered history that continues to shape
our world. This encyclopedic volume features over 2,500 items from
its extraordinary collections. Never before has a book included
this full a spectrum of art, archives, and artifacts from socialist
East Germany: official symbols and dissident expressions, the
spectacular and the routine, the mass-produced and the handmade,
the funny and the tragic. Packaged in a slick, portable box, the
book also comes with a facsimile of a GDR family scrapbook,
documenting real and imagined travels both within East Germany, and
across the border. Accompanying these remnants of a now-vanished
world are texts from scholars and specialists from across Europe,
Canada, and the United States, with themes ranging from the secret
police to sexuality, from monuments to mental-mapping. More than
900 pages, featuring over 2,500 objects Color-coded tabs for swift
navigation throughout the eight main chapters Most comprehensive
overview of GDR visual and material culture to date Several dozen
images of everyday life and public events from the most famous GDR
photographers Bonus material inside the handy shipping box: 56-page
facsimile of a GDR family scrapbook, documenting real and imagined
travels both in East Germany, and across the border Enhanced
multimedia content, providing original videos and audio recordings
from the GDR Starting November 18, 2017, visit the Wende Museum at
its expanded campus in Culver City's Armory Building, a site
originally created in preparation for World War III but re-designed
by Michael Boyd, Christian Kienapfel, and Benedikt Taschen to
welcome its 100,000+ collection of artifacts.
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