From the blurb: 

The Weimar Republic esiablished a distinctive new culture which sprang from the roots of the Modern Movement. Tragically cut short by the rise of Hitler in 1933, this was a unique effort to bring into common use technical and artistic discoveries of the great pre-war pioneers from the Cubists to Le Corbusier. Although it was closely related to contemporary movements elsewhere - particularly in Russia - it was centred principally in Germany: here some of the most original and significant artists, writers, musicians, architects, photographers, designers and film-makers came together in what amounted to a cultural revolution.

This unprecedented ferment was closely related to the political currents of the time: the strains which developed of revolutionary and communist art had the greatest influence on artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Otto Dix, on the theatre of Brecht and Piscator and on the films of Dudow and Jutzi. New technologies were reflected in the music of Toch and Hindemith, in the role of the Bauhaus, in the development of the new architecture in Germany and in the many innovations in industrial design, photography and film-making.

Though concentrating mainly on the heyday of this new culture, the pictures here assembled show how it originated in the aftermath of the First World War and the unsettled early years of the new republic, uneasily balanced between its revolutionary pretensions and its desire for order. Many photographs, paintings, drawings and collages, books and film stills are here presented in an entirely novel way; as a cinematic montage of images that evokes the period with originality and shocking vividness. A mass of little known and astonishing visual material has been combined to create a unique panorama of the times - trom the initial utopian hopes via bitter disillusionment to the hard-hearted yet still socially conscious scepticism that characterized the more settled second half of the 1920s.

A brief final section shows the effects of the political polarization that brought Hitler to power.

With 311 illustrations in two colours