Includes bibliographical references and index.

Four Centuries of Faint Centers -- Hermeneutics and the Sixth Component -- Greek, Italian and Germanic Precursors -- Comprehensive Early Screens -- Schinkel and Berlin -- Caspar David Friedrich and the Faint Axis -- Screens of Southern and Western Germany and Vienna -- Peter Behrens -- Twentieth Century Screens -- Nazi Screens -- Mies van der Rohe and Crown Hall.