TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lucy Wasensteiner
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781789973921
TI  - Sites of Interchange
T2  - Modernism, Politics and Culture between Britain and Germany, 1919–1955
DO  - 10.3726/b15599
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1143227
N2  - Early twentieth-century Germany was a site of extremes, in which cultural production was entangled in the swiftly changing political and economic landscape. Radical utopias and pragmatic solutions for life and culture were proposed, modernism embraced and dramatically rejected. Britain in the same period can seem comparatively stable, a nation wedded to established cultural forms in the face of social change. Yet throughout the period, there remained a lively interchange between the two countries. This collection of essays, by scholars working between Britain and Germany, elsewhere in Europe and in North America, looks anew at the complicated cultural relationship between Britain and Germany in the years between 1919 and 1955. It sets out to explore the connections between the two countries during this time in the fields of fine art and arts institutions, architecture, design and craft, photography, art history and criticism. It explores how practitioners in the two countries learned from and influenced each other, seeking to highlight the relevance of these interchanges today.
KW  - German modernism, UK-German Exchange, German culture, Sites of Interchange, Lucy Wasensteiner
LA  - English
ER  -