Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography And The Metropolis Miriam Paeslack University Of Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Architecture

How Photography And A Modernizing Berlin Informed An Urban Image-And One Another-In The Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Centuries Since Fall Of Wall City That Once Visually Epitomized Divided Europe Has Thrived In International Spotlight As Image Reunified Statehood Urbanity Yet Research On Berlin\ S Past Focused Interwar Years Weimar Republic Or Cold War Era With Much Less Attention To Crucial Imperial Between 1871 1918 Constructing Is First Book Critically Assess Contextualize Frame Architectural Photographs It Was Pronounced Germany\ Capital Fraught Questions Had Previously Beset Paris London Expansion Transformation Be Absorbed? What City\ Understanding Its Comparably Short History? Given This History Did Embody Idea Capital? Key Theme Close Interrelation Rapid Physical Metamorphosis Repercussions Promotional Critical Narratives Emergence Groundbreaking Photographic Technologies Novel Forms Mass Distribution Providing Rare Analysis Significant Formative Miriam Paeslack Shows Far More Complex Than Common Cliches Historical Aspiring Place Suggest Emerges Modern Metropolis Only Half-Heartedly Inhibited By Preservationist Concerns Rather Akin North American Cities Their Bold Industrialization Competing Expansions European Counterparts Σελίδες: 232 Διαστάσεις: 17 8X17 8Cm