(updated 18 August 2007)
Bibliography for 
MATERIALS OF MODERNISM (1900-1950)
Thomas J. Misa 
Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis MN 55455 
see also Iron and Steel
titles in German history 1918-45
bibliography on Modernity and Technology



Allen, James Sloan. The romance of commerce and culture: capitalism, modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen crusade for cultural reform.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983

Barnouw, Dagmar. Weimar intellectuals and the threat of modernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988

Buddensieg, Tilmann (et al.).  Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG, 1907-1914. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984

Bullivant, Keith. Culture and society in the Weimar Republic.  Manchester: Manchester University Press; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977

Cantor, Norman F.  Twentieth-century culture: modernism to deconstruction.  New York: P. Lang, 1988 [modernism in art and literature]

Etlin, Richard A. Modernism in Italian architecture, 1890-1940. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991

Friedman, Martin L. Charles Sheeler.  New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1975

Gay, Peter. Weimar culture: the outsider as insider. New York: Harper & Row, 1968

Hays, K. Michael.  Modernism and the posthumanist subject: the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992

Herf, Jeffrey. Reactionary modernism: technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Hight, Eleanor M.  Picturing modernism: Moholy-Nagy and photography in Weimar Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995

Hight, Eleanor M. Moholy-Nagy: photography and film in Weimar Germany. Wellesley, Mass.: Wellesley College Museum, 1985

Hochman, Elaine S.  Bauhaus: crucible of modernism.  New York: Fromm International, 1997

Kornwolf, James D. (ed.).  Modernism in America 1937-1941: a catalog and exhibition of four architectural competitions: Wheaton College, Goucher College, College of William and Mary, Smithsonian Institution.  Williamsburg, Va.: Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1985

Lewis, Beth Irwin. George Grosz: art and politics in the Weimar Republic. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1971

Lunn, Eugene. Marxism and modernism: an historical study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982

Miller, Donald L. Lewis Mumford: a life.  New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989

Paret, Peter. The Berlin Secession: modernism and its enemies in imperial Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980

Schwartz, Sanford. The matrix of modernism: Pound, Eliot, and early twentieth- century thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985 [Ezra Pound, T. S.Eliot, 20th century literature]

Tillyard, S. K.  The impact of modernism, 1900-1920. London/New York: Routledge, 1988 [Art, Modern--20th century--Great Britain]

Troy, Nancy J.  Modernism and the decorative arts in France: art nouveau to Le Corbusier.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991

Voyce, Arthur. Russian architecture, trends in nationalism and modernism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948

Willett, John. Art and politics in the Weimar period: the new sobriety, 1917-1933. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978 [classic work in political-cultural history]

Willett, John. The Weimar years: a culture cut short. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984

Willis, Carol.  1995.  Form follows Finance: skyscrapers and skylines in New York and Chicago.  New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1995.

Wingler, Hans Maria. The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978 [658 p.]

Wingler, Hans Maria. The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1969 [653 p.]

Winkler, Klaus-Jurgen. Die Architektur am Bauhaus in Weimar.  Berlin/Munchen: Verlag fur Bauwesen, 1993 [169 p.]
 
 

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