Description
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Published 1989. Hardcover, xvi, 382 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Cream paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering; mild shelf and edge wear to covers; binding tight. Interior pages clean and unmarked throughout; front free endpaper bears a rubber stamp from Har-El, described as an Institute for Study and Worship in the Reform tradition, with a blank donor line (name never inscribed). Dust jacket with bold graphic design on cream ground -- large swastika and typographic composition with small circular photographic portrait of Mies van der Rohe; blurbs from Wolf Von Eckardt, Stanley Tigerman, and Richard Meier on rear panel; light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear; price ($22.50) not clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Elaine Hochman's meticulous inquiry into Mies van der Rohe's years in Germany from 1933 to 1937, examining the architect's ambivalent relationship with the Nazi regime and the Bauhaus he directed in its final years. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Hochman explores why Germany's most celebrated modernist architect chose to remain under the Third Reich before finally emigrating to the United States in 1937.Contents: Preface; Part I: Mies -- Prelude: Hitler's Weather; A Strange Duality; A Blind and Fateful Course; "The Iron Fist"; So Deadly a Battle; Black Leather Boots and Bayonets; A Fearsome Silence; Triumph; An Astonishing Turn; Part II: Hitler -- "Nearest My Heart"; "Unmistakably Clear"; Part III: Confrontation -- Momentary Exaggerations; "Noisy, Bothersome and Slightly Crazy"; "A Shameful, Dishonourable Fate"; "It Is Time . . ."; The Olympic Spirit; A Kind of Suicide; Afterword; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.