Weimar Surfaces

This book presents a history of mass culture in the making. It is an interdisciplinary, sophisticated, and provocative study of the Weimar visual modern, which, as Ward shows, is fundamentally connected to and relevant for our postmodern urban culture.

Janet Ward is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Colorado. Boulder.

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval

1

(1)

Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum

1

(7)

Weimar Surfaces Now

8

(6)

Tactility in the City

14

(4)

Exhibiting Superficies

18

(6)

Philosophies of Counterfeit

24

(13)

Resistances to Weimar Surface

37

(4)

Surface, Academy, and World

41

(4)

Functionalist Facades: The Reformation of Weimar Architecture

45

(47)

The Building's New Face

45

(7)

Decoration Do's and Don'ts

52

(4)

Brave New World

56

(6)

Glass Culture

62

(7)

The Pains of Tabula Rasa

69

(5)

Surface Art at Home

74

(7)

Fashioning the Female Body

81

(11)

Electric Stimulations: The Shock of the New Objectivity in Weimar Advertising

92

(50)

Advertising as Power

92

(9)

Electric Modernity

101

(9)

The Architecture of Light

110

(6)

Shock Treatments

116

(12)

``Light Lures People,''

128

(5)

Rejecting the Modern

133

(3)

The Embrace of the Avant-Grade

136

(4)

Postmodernity and the Space of Advertising

140

(2)

Into the Mouth of the Moloch: Weimar Surface Culture Goes to the Movies

142

(49)

From Caligari-Effect to Film-Set Omnipotence

142

(5)

Kracauer versus the Weimar Film City

147

(8)

Celebratory Film Streets

155

(8)

The Weimar Movie Places: Facades on Facades

163

(9)

``The Total Artwork of Effects,''

172

(9)

Cinema and the Secularization of Ritual

181

(10)

The Display Window: Designs and Desires of Weimar Consumerism

191

(50)

The Phantasmagoria of Selling

191

(7)

Through the Looking Glass

198

(10)

The Opening in the Wall

208

(7)

Window Techniques

215

(5)

The Display Window as Mechanical-Age Artwork

220

(3)

Transparencies of Truth and Lie

223

(5)

Mannequins on Both Sides of the Glass

228

(5)

The Murderer at the Window

233

(7)

Post-Wall Re-Creations

240

(1)

Appendix: Selected Weimar Periodicals and Newspapers

241

(4)

Notes

245

(76)

Illustration Sources

321

(4)

Index

325

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