Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945

Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG (foxing to block, pages are otherwise clean). Black and white cloth boards, black and white illustrated dust jacket with black lettering, 278 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. "In a close analysis of intellectual, political, social, and economic developments in the Weimar Republic, Mrs. Lane shows that Nazi views on architecture were generated by a complex of historical factors. Moreover, far from being cohesive or monolithic, Nazi cultural policy was largely the product of the conflicting ideas about art held by the Nazi leaders and their efforts to advance these ideas during internal power struggles. Although primarily concerned with the origins and nature of Nazi cultural policy, Mrs. Lane, in the course of her superbly illustrated study, provides much new information on such relevant subjects as the development of modern architecture in Germany during the period, the artistic and political thought of its creator, the early history of the Bauhaus, housing conditions and housing policy in the Weimar Republic, and Nazi political concepts, cultural organizations, and propaganda methods."- dust jacket.