Weimar Surfaces

Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany

By: Janet Ward

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Paperback | 4 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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"This outstanding book has retrieved all the luminous qualities of its subject matter to produce an astonishing revelation of gleaming appearances on splendid display. It is unrivalled by any previous study."--Marcus Bullock, coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1913-26

"Weimar Surfaces creates provocative new connections between the historical constellations that found a privileged expression in Weimar Berlin and the more contemporary debates on the legacies of modernism and modernity. A compelling study."--Sabine Hake, author of The Cinema's Third Machine

"Janet Ward's study of Weimar architecture and design is the most comprehensive and integrated study of the surface of Weimar experience yet written. . . . A first-rate and stimulating book."--Sander L. Gilman, coauthor of Hysteria Beyond Freud

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"This outstanding book has retrieved all the luminous qualities of its subject matter to produce an astonishing revelation of gleaming appearances on splendid display. It is unrivalled by any previous study." - Marcus Bullock, coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1913-26 "Weimar Surfaces creates provocative new connections between the historical constellations that found a privileged expression in Weimar Berlin and the more contemporary debates on the legacies of modernism and modernity. A compelling study." - Sabine Hake, author of The Cinema's Third Machine "Janet Ward's study of Weimar architecture and design is the most comprehensive and integrated study of the surface of Weimar experience yet written.... A first-rate and stimulating book." - Sander L. Gilman, coauthor of Hysteria Beyond Freud"

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Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval	p. 1
Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum	p. 1
Weimar Surfaces Now	p. 8
Tactility in the City	p. 14
Exhibiting Superficies	p. 18
Philosophies of Counterfeit	p. 24
Resistances to Weimar Surface	p. 37
Surface, Academy, and World	p. 41
Functionalist Facades: The Reformation of Weimar Architecture	p. 45
The Building's New Face	p. 45
Decoration Do's and Don'ts	p. 52
Brave New World	p. 56
Glass Culture	p. 62
The Pains of Tabula Rasa	p. 69
Surface Art at Home	p. 74
Fashioning the Female Body	p. 81
Electric Stimulations: The Shock of the New Objectivity in Weimar Advertising	p. 92
Advertising as Power	p. 92
Electric Modernity	p. 101
The Architecture of Light	p. 110
Shock Treatments	p. 116
"Light Lures People,"	p. 128
Rejecting the Modern	p. 133
The Embrace of the Avant-Garde	p. 136
Postmodernity and the Space of Advertising	p. 140
Into the Mouth of the Moloch: Weimar Surface Culture Goes to the Movies	p. 142
From Caligari-Effect to Film-Set Omnipotence	p. 142
Kracauer versus the Weimar Film City	p. 147
Celebratory Film Streets	p. 155
The Weimar Movie Palaces: Facades on Facades	p. 163
"The Total Artwork of Effects,"	p. 172
Cinema and the Secularization of Ritual	p. 181
The Display Window: Designs and Desires of Weimar Consumerism	p. 191
The Phantasmagoria of Selling	p. 191
Through the Looking Glass	p. 198
The Opening in the Wall	p. 208
Window Techniques	p. 215
The Display Window as Mechanical-Age Artwork	p. 220
Transparencies of Truth and Lie	p. 223
Mannequins on Both Sides of the Glass	p. 228
The Murderer at the Window	p. 233
Post-Wall Re-Creations	p. 240
Selected Weimar Periodicals and Newspapers	p. 241
Notes	p. 245
Illustration Sources	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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