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Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait Hardback - 1997

by Ronald Taylor

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This beautiful book--a full cultural portrait of Berlin--reveals the spirit of this vital and important city by focusing on the culture it produced from its medieval beginnings to the reunification of 1990. Lavishly illustrated the book surveys the literature, philosophy, music, theater, and visual and decorative arts that emerged from, and were expressive of, the evolving social patterns of the city. 50 color and 160 b&w illustrations.

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This beautiful book--a full cultural portrait of Berlin--reveals the spirit of this vital and important city by focusing on the culture it produced from its medieval beginnings to the reunification of 1990. Lavishly illustrated the book surveys the literature, philosophy, music, theater, and visual and decorative arts that emerged from and were expressive of the evolving social patterns of the city.

Ronald Taylor brings to life the cultural activities of each age, putting these in the context of the politics and social life of the era. In relation to the medieval period, for example, he describes the "red-brick" Gothic style, Gothic art in general, and early printed books. For later periods, as the arts develop, he highlights the architecture, contemporary painting and sculpture, music, literature, furniture, and interior decoration. Great names inseparable from the life of the city--Lessing, Hegel, Schinkel, Mendelssohn, Menzel, and Fontane--appear prominently in the narrative. But Taylor also discusses lesser figures who, absorbed by their time and place, often tell us more about their era than do their greater contemporaries.

From a series of cultural cameos, including the Cold War years when it was divided by the Wall into East and West, Taylor assembles a fascinating picture of Berlin, giving insights into its corporate personality. The result is not only a fresh perspective on the city but also a framework within which to view the reunited Germany of today and the cultural paths it is pursuing.

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  • Title Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait
  • Author Ronald Taylor
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date 1997-12
  • ISBN 9780300072006 / 0300072007
  • Weight 2.83 lbs (1.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.07 x 7.07 x 1.27 in (25.58 x 17.96 x 3.23 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Berlin (Germany) - Intellectual life, Politics and literature - Germany - Berlin -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-24401
  • Dewey Decimal Code 943.155

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/1997, Page 1761
  • New York Times, 04/26/1998, Page 32
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/08/1997, Page 66

About the author

Ronald Taylor is emeritus professor of German at the University of Sussex. He has been visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of British Columbia. Among his many books are studies in the culture of medieval and modern Germany and biographies of Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Kurt Weill.
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