The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930 (Hardcover)

~ Frank Whitford (Editor) "Towards the end of the 1920s a 'Guide to Dissolute Berlin' - Fuhrer durch das lasterhafte Berlin - was published in Leipzig..." (more)
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This volume demonstrates how brilliantly Grosz caught the life, and more importantly the feverish imagination, of a city and a nation in a particularly turbulent time. Marrying the jumpy lines and figural distortions of cubism to narrative subjects and an angry sense of morality, he illuminated the tawdry, often violent, lives of Berlin's down-and-out, its powerbrokers, and its murderers, during the chaotic Weimar years of the 1920s, in corrosive, unsettling, kinetic images. The drawings and prints of drunken prostitutes and their leering customers, calm murderers inspecting the bodies of their victims, fat businessmen and their voluptuous mistresses, prim bourgeoisie and exhausted workers, and mutilated ex-soldiers, are complemented here by some of Grosz's less familiar, and equally disturbing, watercolors. Whitford, a former lecturer in art history at Cambridge, provides a useful introduction to Grosz's life and times, and detailed and very helpful annotations to the artwork. A superb overview of a unique career. (139 b&w and 54 color illustrations) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Few artists have truly defined an era. George Grosz, the great truth-teller of Weimar Germany and the early Nazi years, came as close as any.... Though full of dark humor, many of the images retain their power to shock. -- The New York Times Book Review, Ted Loos

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (July 21, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300072066
• ISBN-13: 978-0300072068
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 10.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,189,335 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best Grosz books, November 22, 2009

By	Winston hough "klee fan" (Glenview, Il. United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After I had bought the Hans Hess , Herbert Bittner,Serge Sabarsky ,Beth Lewis Books, I bought this book as it was one of the first books to discuss and illustrate Grosz's work in theater. His drawings put him in the satirical art classification.But his work in theater was less traditional ,and it is here that he must be remembered as a Dadaist.Duchamp of course is best known as a dadaist..for his urinal for one. Hans Arp is always listed as the dadaist in the crossword puzzles.The Zurich (Arp for one) group is different than the Berlin group and the New York Dadaist such as Duchamp.The recent Skira book on Grosz has reproductions of Grosz's work in theater but the color reproductions are about equal in quality.This is a good book on Grosz but ,not as comprehensive as the Grosz New York - Berlin catalogue of the exhibition held in Rome Italy. Sorry ,it is higher in price!