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, families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende Museum in
Los Angeles, California, is named after the period of change
immediately 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 around 2000 items from
its extraordinary collections. Based on our XL-sized volume, this
edition includes a full 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. 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 800 pages, featuring around 2000 objects.
A smaller, more accessible version of our XL-sized volume, the 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. From November 18, 2017, visit the
Wende Musem 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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