Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism /
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 liv...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2007.
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| Serie: | Weimar and now ;
41. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295161 |
Sommario:
- 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.