Material Modernity

Name: Material Modernity
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Material ModernityInnovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic\nAuthor(s): Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Maria Makela\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781350228740, 978-1350228740\nSynopsis\nMaterial 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 pl.