An Alle Kunstler! War, Revolution, Weimar: German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters, and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation [Textbook Binding]

Ida Katherine Rigby (Author), Earl A. Powell (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0916304620 | ISBN-13: 978-0916304621 | Publication Date: January 23, 1991

The anguish, frustration, and desperate experimentation which characterized German society in the wake of its bitter defeat in World War I and during the ensuing revolution are nowhere more apparent than in the graphic posters, prints, and book and periodical illustrations produced by the German Expressionist artists who, between 1918 and 1922, joined the effort to reshape society. In a scholarly and sympathetic study enhanced by over 100 illustrations, art historian Ida Rigby analyzes these artists' attempts to integrate art into the movement for social reform, and their eventual disillusioned withdrawal into realism. Although such well known artists as Kàuathe Kollwitz, George Grosz, and Otto Dix are given full consideration, an important feature of this book is the attention it pays to the minor figures who, many argue, were the most characteristic representatives of the Expressionist movement. Originally published in 1987.

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• Textbook Binding: 118 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pub Assoc (January 23, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916304620
• ISBN-13: 978-0916304621
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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This review is from: Alle Kunstler: War--Revolution--Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Posters, and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation (Paperback)

An Alle Künstler! War, Revolution, Weimar: German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters, and Periodicals from The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation by Ida Katherine Rigby; foreword Earl A. Powell, III | ISBN: 0-916304-62-0 | Paper / Pages: 118 / $18.75 | second edition, corrected, 1987; first edition 1983 | In a scholarly and sympathetic study enhanced by over 100 illustrations, art historian Ida Rigby analyzes attempts by German Expressionist artists to integrate art into the movement for social reform in the wake of Germany's bitter defeat in World War I and during the ensuing revolution. A first-rate critical study.