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Luxury and modernism : architecture and the object in Germany, 1900-1933 / Robin Schuldenfrei.

By: Schuldenfrei, Robin [author.].
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2018Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691175126 (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Modern movement (Architecture) -- Germany | Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Design -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Technology -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | LuxuryGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Consumption: Peter Behrens at the AEG and the luxury of technology -- Objectivity: the Werkbund display window and architecture's object -- Capitalism and crisis: the Haus am Horn and the early Bauhaus -- Production/Reproduction: the irreproducibility of the Bauhaus object -- Subjectivity: Mies van der Rohe's materiality and the re-inscribing of modernism's meaning -- Interiority: Mies van der Rohe, auratic space, and the modern city -- Conclusion: luxury's final manifestations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consumption: Peter Behrens at the AEG and the luxury of technology -- Objectivity: the Werkbund display window and architecture's object -- Capitalism and crisis: the Haus am Horn and the early Bauhaus -- Production/Reproduction: the irreproducibility of the Bauhaus object -- Subjectivity: Mies van der Rohe's materiality and the re-inscribing of modernism's meaning -- Interiority: Mies van der Rohe, auratic space, and the modern city -- Conclusion: luxury's final manifestations.

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