Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935 by Karl Toepfer

Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism

Karl Toepfer

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The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious inner conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of...

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