The Culture of the Case

“The Culture of the Case reads as law and humanities scholarship of the best kind—cross-disciplinary, wide-ranging, associative, and well-researched in archives and scholarship in both German and English… . A major and exceptional book. The Culture of the Case manages to pull off the rare feat of matching the creativity of its subjects and topic with its own creativity of thought and high-level scholarly analysis. Hats off—just like the bald man on the cover.”
—Law, Culture and the Humanities

“A conceptually ambitious re-evaluation of art, crime, and publicity in early-twentieth-century German-speaking Europe… . Schwartz is an admirable guide.”
—Oxford Art Journal

“Let there be no mistake: this is a compact yet magnificent contribution to the history of modern cultural production in German-speaking Central Europe. It should be an essential read not only for modern art historians but also for cultural historians and social theorists who think about subcultural rebellion and disciplinary authority, individual agency and social constraint, and the determined negotiations that produce knowledge.”
—German Studies Review

Frederic J. Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at University College London. His books include The Werkbund- Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War and Blind Spots- Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany.

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