Author: Schwartz, Frederic J.
Title: The Werkbund : Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995. orig.boards. 30x20cm, vii,262 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ 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

Keywords: Deutscher Werkbund, German Art History, Decorative Arts, Wilhelmine Germany, Architecture, Architectural, Design, ,