"Examines photo essays from Weimar Germany's many social crises. Traces photography's emergence as a new language that German photographers used to intervene in modernity's key political and philosophical debates: changing notions of nature and culture, national and personal ide…
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Was the Nazi party a predominantly middle-class party or a people's party? The social background of the supporters of Nazism has been the subject of intense debate since the early 1930s. Detlef Mühlberger summarizes the answer to this question in his text. Based on extensive soc…
"Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, reevaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement." "Walz's exploration of ma…
"Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, reevaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement." "Walz's exploration of ma…
From the Brecht-Weill 'Threepenny Opera' to the Warburg Institute, from the Bauhaus to 'The Magic Mountain,' the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) has become a legend for its intense creativity during a time of political upheaval. In this account, the historian Peter Gay traces the ri…
Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communi…