Luxury and Modernism : Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933 /
This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Robin Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Spanish |
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[Panamá] :
Instituto Nacional de cultura, Dirección Nacional de Extensión Cultural, Departamento de Letras,
c1993.
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| Edition: | 1. ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Consumption: Peter Behrens at the AEG and the luxury of technology
- Objectivity: the Werkbund display window and architecture's object
- Capitalism and crisis: the Haus am Horn and the early Bauhaus
- Production/Reproduction: the irreproducibility of the Bauhaus object
- Subjectivity: Mies van der Rohe's materiality and the re-inscribing of modernism's meaning
- Interiority: Mies van der Rohe, auratic space, and the modern city
- Conclusion: luxury's final manifestations.
