East German Handbook (Jampol Justinian)(Paperback)

From artworks, design, and everyday objects to political posters and flags, Stasi equipment, and uniforms: sift through never-before-seen archives in this encyclopedia of socialist East Germany. Based on our XL volume, the most comprehensive overview of GDR visual and material culture to date, this affordable new edition presents the fascinating remnants of a now-vanished world. This special two-language edition comes with texts both in English and German.
For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers, friends, families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California, is named after the period of change immediately following the wall's destruction. It was established in 2002 to study the visual and material culture of the former Eastern Bloc, and, with physical and psychic distance, to foster multiple perspectives on this multilayered history that continues to shape our world. This encyclopedic volume features around 2,000 items from its extraordinary collections. Based on our XL-sized volume, this edition includes a full spectrum of art, archives, and artifacts from socialist East Germany: official symbols and dissident expressions, the spectacular and the routine, the mass-produced and the handmade, the funny and the tragic. Accompanying these remnants of a now-vanished world are texts from scholars
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