Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bahr, Ehrhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Colección:Weimar and now ; 41.
Temas:
1900-1999
Modernism (Aesthetics) > California > Los Angeles.
Germans > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Jews, German > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Modernisme (Esthétique) > Californie > Los Angeles.
Allemands > Californie > Los Angeles > Vie intellectuelle.
Juifs allemands > Californie > Los Angeles > Vie intellectuelle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Intellectual life
Germans > Intellectual life
Jews, German > Intellectual life
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Literatur
Exil
Geistesleben
Weimarer Republik
Exilschriftsteller
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
California > Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Kalifornien
Deutschland
Deutsche.
18th century.
1930s.
1940s.
20th century.
american history.
arnold schoenberg.
bertolt brecht.
california.
classicism.
ehrhard bahr.
exile.
fritz lang.
german artists.
german modernism.
germany.
intellectual.
los angeles.
modernism.
national socialism.
pacific coast.
schoenberg.
socialism.
southern california.
theodore adorno.
thomas mann.
united states history.
us history.
weimer germany.
weimer republic.
west coast.
western united states.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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