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The alienation effect : how Central European emigres transformed the British twentieth century
Hatherley, Owen2025
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Place reservation for The alienation effect : how Central European emigres transformed the British twentieth centuryAs the horrors of fascism ran riot through Europe in the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans, most of them Jewish and many of them artists, fled their countries seeking sanctuary in an imperial island at the edge of the continent. The world they found when they reached these shores - damp, grey and parochial - was a far cry from the modernity and dynamism of Weimar Berlin, Red Vienna or modernist Prague, but it was safe, and it became home. Yet the emigres had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever. In this book, historian Owen Hatherley leads us into the technicolour world of this exiled generation of artists and intellects, from celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger to forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass.
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UK : Allen Lane, 2025.UK : Allen Lane, 2025.
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viii, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241378205 (hbk)
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304.8094
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English
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3015925
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