Weimar on the Pacific German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism

- Idioma: INGLÊS

- Tipo de Capa: BROCHURA

- Número de Páginas: 368

- Ano de Edição: 2007

- Número de Edição: 1º

- Dimensões: 22.86 x 15.24 x 3.18cm;

- ISBN: 9780520257955

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In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone for this group of diverse talents and opinions. Weimar on the Pacific is the first book to examine these artists and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Döblin, Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles´s influence on them and their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film noir and Thomas Mann´s Doctor Faustus, Bahr shows how this community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the traumatic political and historical changes they were living through.