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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Very slight tan to outer page edges. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the 1920s and 1930s photography became an immense phenomenon across Austria Czechoslovakia Germany Hungary and Poland. It fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists provided a creative outlet for thousands of devoted amateurs and became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines newspapers advertising and books. It was in interwar central Europe as well that the history of photography as a modern art form was established. Published to accompany an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art Washington this book presents the creations of approximately one hundred individuals whose work redefined the very notion of art and embodied at times a dizzying freedom from traditional social roles. Matthew S. Witkovsky’s perceptive text explores topics ranging from the avant-garde (surrealism experimental photography) to popular culture (tabloids sports the ‘new woman’) to extremist politics and war. He pays particular attention to photomontage a technique that epitomized the era and found broad acceptance among vanguard artists and mass media outlets. Familiar names such as L?szl? Moholy-Nagy Josef Sudek and the Bauhaus are connected to a wealth of individuals and organizations whose influence is being recovered for the first time. (OS)