Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 358 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520257952
,
0520251288
,
052093380X
,
1282359266
,
9780520257955
,
9780520251281
,
9780520933804
,
9781282359260
Series Statement:
Weimar and now 41
Uniform Title:
University of California Press collection
Content:
In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and lives
Content:
The dialectic of modernism -- Art and its resistance to society: Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory -- Bertolt Brecht's California poetry: mimesis or modernism? -- The dialectic of modern science: Brecht's Galileo -- Epic theater versus film noir: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi film Hangmen also die -- California modern as immigrant modernism: architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler -- Between modernism and antimodernism: Franz Werfel -- Renegade modernism: Alfred Döblin's novel Karl and Rosa -- The political battleground of exile modernism: the Council for a Democratic Germany -- Evil Germany versus good Germany: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus -- A "True Modernist": Arnold Schoenberg -- Conclusion: The Weimar legacy of Los Angeles
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520251281
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520251288
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bahr, Ehrhard Weimar on the Pacific Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Bahr, Ehrhard 1932-2020
