{"product_id":"weimar-on-the-pacific-41-ehrhard-bahr-9780520257955","title":"Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism Volume 41","description":"In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone for this group of diverse talents and opinions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeimar on the Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to examine these artists and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Dlin, Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles's influence on them and their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film noir and Thomas Mann's \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, Bahr shows how this community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the traumatic political and historical changes they were living through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ehrhard Bahr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520257952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520257955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Ehrhard Bahr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056215748863,"sku":"9780520257955","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_83f50120-b9da-4be4-84e3-677de6623c64.jpg?v=1685040136","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weimar-on-the-pacific-41-ehrhard-bahr-9780520257955","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}