Expressionist utopias : paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy /
Timothy O. Benson ; with contributions by Edward Dimendberg [and others].
- 339 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 31 cm
Originally published: Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Oct. 21, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330) and index.
Fantasy and functionality: the fate of Utopia / Bridge to Utopia: the Brucke as Utopian experiment / Social theory, the Metropolis, and expressionism / The expressionist sublime / Metropolis: city, cinema, modernity / The museum as liquid space: a conversation with Wolf D. Prix on the Coop Himmelblau design of the Expressionist Utopias exhibit / Timothy O. Benson -- Reinhold Heller -- David Frisby -- Iain Boyd Whyte -- Anton Kaes -- Edward Dimendberg.