Expressionist utopias : paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy /

Expressionist utopias : paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Benson, Timothy O., 1950-
Imprint:	Los Angeles, Calif. : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, c1993.
Description:	323 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Expressionism (Art) -- Germany -- Exhibitions. Art, German -- Exhibitions. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany -- Exhibitions. Art, German. Expressionism (Art) Germany. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1497380

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Other authors / contributors:	Frisby, David. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN:	0295973242 (hardbound : University of Washington Press)
Notes:	Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Oct. 21, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Fantasy and Functionality: The Fate of Utopia / Timothy O. Benson
Plates: Paradise
Bridge to Utopia: The Brucke as Utopian Experiment / Reinhold Heller
Plates: Metropolis
Social Theory, the Metropolis, and Expressionism / David Frisby
Plates: Architectural Fantasy
The Expressionist Sublime / Iain Boyd Whyte
Plates: Film and Stage
Metropolis: City, Cinema, Modernity / Anton Kaes
Plates: Anti-Utopia
Appendix: Essays, Articles, Manifestos, Letters, and Other Writings.