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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bahr, Ehrhard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Exilschriftsteller
Weimarer Republik
Geistesleben
Exil
Literatur
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Jews, German > Intellectual life.
Germans > Intellectual life.
Jews, German > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Germans > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > California > Los Angeles.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Juifs allemands > Californie > Los Angeles > Vie intellectuelle.
Allemands > Californie > Los Angeles > Vie intellectuelle.
Modernisme (Esthetique) > Californie > Los Angeles.
Deutsche.
Deutschland
Kalifornien
Los Angeles, Calif.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 lives.
Physical Description:1 online resource (378 pages).
ISBN:9780520933804

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