Sites of interchange : modernism, politics and culture between Britain and Germany, 1919-1955 / editor: Lucy Wasensteiner

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction (Lucy Wasensteiner) -- 1 Play, Design, Politics: Technical Toys, Design Policies and British-German Exchanges in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Artemis Yagou) -- 2 Dorothy Warren and 'The Smartest Private Art-Gallery Place in London': Promoting Exchange with Berlin, 1927-1934 (Ulrike Meyer Stump) -- 3 Exhibiting Contemporary British Art: The Anglo-German Club, 1931-1934 (Lee Beard) -- 4 'New Eyes for Old': How the Neues Sehen and the Neue Sachlichkeit Transformed the Photography of Architecture in Britain in the Early 1930s (Valeria Carullo) -- 5 The Dislocation of Amateurism: Moholy-Nagy in England, 1935-1937 (Leah Hsiao) -- 6 Lucia Moholy and German Photography History in Britain (Michelle Henning) -- 7 Interchanged Threads: Modernism and History in Ethel Mairet, Nikolaus Pevsner and the Bauhaus Weavers (Antonia Behan) -- 8 Walter Gropius and Herbert Read: Architecture, Industry, Transitions and Translations (Karen Koehler) -- 9 Metropolitan Exile: London, Refugee Artists and Places of Contact in the 1930s and 1940s (Burcu Dogramaci) -- 10 Berlin in London, Hiddensee in Walberswick: On Ernst L. Freud's Exile Architecture in England (Volker M. Welter) -- 11 9, Carlton House Terrace: The German Embassy in London as Showcase for Nazi Ideology (Ina Weinrautner) -- 12 Planning the Modern City: The Neighbourhood Unit Idea in London and Hamburg before and after the Second World War (Dirk Schubert) -- 13 Reframing Exilic Identity for a German Audience: Joseph Paul Hodin's Encounter with Else and Ludwig Meidner and Its Aftermath (Shulamith Behr) -- 14 Witness to Global Realignments and Human Suffering: Oskar Kokoschka in Post-War London (Keith Holz) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Series Index.

Early twentieth-century Germany and Britain may have seemed politically very different, yet there was a lively interchange between these two countries during this period. This book explores how art practitioners and scholars in both countries learned from and influenced each other, seeking to highlight the relevance of these interchanges today.