The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period , John Willett provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.

Art And Politics In The Weimar Period: The New Sobriety 1917-1933

Willett, John

Arts & Photography

Da Capo Press

The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period, John Willett provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.

Art and politics in the Weimar period: The new sobriety, 1917-1933

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pantheon Books

Examines the rise, fall, and ramifications of such cultural movements as cubism, futurism, expressionism, constructivism, and the New Sobriety within the context of Weimar political and economic developments

ART & POLITICS WEIMAR

History

Europe

Pantheon

This study of Brecht's theatre from eight different aspects was first published in 1959. The book aims to explain the difficult aspects of his ideology and political leanings in a straightforward manner. It traces his stylistic development as a playwright and stage director through each of his major plays and explains his evolving notion of epic theatre within the political and social climate of the 1920s, Marxism, Nazism and post-war Communism.

Theatre Of Bertolt Brecht, The (Plays and Playwrights)

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

Brecht in Context

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

METHUEN

Caspar Neher: Brecht's Designer

Methuen London Ltd.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Bertolt Brecht Poems 1913-1956

BRECHT, BERTOLT

Fried, Erich

Manheim, Ralph

Poetry

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) wrote when he was in college, is the provocative story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud. The NEW YORK TIMES called the first American production "strong stuff, both horrible and fascinating".

Baal (Bertolt Brecht Collected Plays, Vol 1 : Part 1)

Dramas & Plays

Bertolt Brecht Poems (Bertolt Brecht Plays, Poetry and Prose)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Olympic Marketing Corp

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