Material Modernity: Innovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar Republic - Paperbackby Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Editor), Maria Makela (Editor) Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new media and the re fashioning of old media. Weimar became famous for the explosion of creative ingenuity across the arts in Germany, due to experiments with new techniques (including the move towards abstraction in painting and sculpture) and