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Benson, Timothy O.; Frisby, David (Contributor); Jacobson, Karen (Editor)

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

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Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1993. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Quarto in purple and orange self-wraps; black endpapers; 323 pages: illustrations (some color); 31 cm Near fine; clean and tight; minor binding flaw to spine lamination (see photos). Paperback. ISBN: 9780295973241, 0295973242

Contents: Fantasy and functionality: the fate of utopia / Timothy O. Benson. Bridge to utopia: the Brücke as utopian experiment / Reinhold Heller. Social theory, the metropolis, and expressionism / David Frisby. The expressionist sublime / Iain Boyd Whyte. Metropolis: city, cinema, modernity / Anton Kaes. Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Oct. 21, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994.

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