The Werkbund Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War by Schwartz Frederic J (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Small quarto. Hardcover. Yellow cloth in illustrated jacket. vii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund was at the center of attempts to forge new theories of architecture and design in light of the momentous technological and economic developments of modernity. In this fascinating book, Frederic J. Schwartz explores the ideological and aesthetic positions at the core of debates that embroiled the prominent architects, critics, sociologists, economists, and politicians who had united in the Werkbund during this pivotal era. VG-. Light rubbing to jacket and bumping to bottom fore edge corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. hardcover in dust jacket; no flaws, clean, no writing or markings, tightly bound,; ; english text. 262pp.; 100 illustrations. the most recent of the small number of titles in english which examine the important german werkbund. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. 26.5 x 20 cm. Royal octavo. 262pp. Some scratching to bottom of boards, toning to very bottom of cloth spine. Light scratching to jacket. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc. This item is heavy and will attract postal surcharges.

Large 8vo. pp: 262. First edition. Original publisher's beige boards with black lettering at spine in original publisher's photo-illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white. This is a large and heavy item and may require additional cost to post. ISBN: 0300068980 Dust jacket shows light signs of shelfwear. Small crease to front cover. Slight rubbing to bottom edges of boards. Otherwise compact and internally perfectly clean copy. Near fine in very good dust jacket.

262 S. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Gr. 8°. Sauberes Exemplar ohne Stempel und Anstreichungen. Einige Abbildungen und Tafeln. Schutzumschlag minimal berieben. Sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund was at the center of attempts to forge new theories of architecture and design in light of the momentous technological and economic developments of modernity. In this fascinating book, Frederic J. Schwartz explores the ideological and aesthetic positions at the core of debates that embroiled the prominent architects, critics, sociologists, economists, and politicians who had united in the Werkbund during this pivotal era. Taking the Werkbund out of the shadow of 1920s developments in architecture and design that have received more attention, Schwartz casts new light on this earlier historical movement. He shows that the concerns of the group went far beyond aesthetics, as design became a major testing ground for a new self-consciousness about the effects of consumerism and commodification in modern culture. Schwartz explores how a theoretical dialogue developed between the Werkbund and sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Werner Sombart, how economists' ideas about the cultural nature of the consumer market led to an ill-fated call for the development of "types," and how a group of "individualists" within the organization developed an opposing position by taking into account changes in copyright and trademark laws that had begun to govern the economic use of visual form in quite concrete ways. It is to the debates in and around the Werkbund, Schwartz asserts, that we must look to find important roots of the mass culture theory associated with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and other thinkers of the Frankfurt School. ISBN 0300068980.

Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. 30x20cm, vii,262 pp "During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design in the light of the technological and economic developments of modernity. This work explores the ideology and aesthetic positions in the debates among those who comprised the Werkbund".