@article{1391143,
      recid = {1391143},
      author = {Grosz, George,},
      title = {The Berlin of George Grosz : drawings, watercolours, and  prints 1912-1930.},
      pages = {xi, 212 pages :},
      note = {Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same  name at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 March-8 June  1997.},
      abstract = {No artist's work gives off the acrid whiff of Berlin  during the 1920s as unmistakably as the paintings, drawings  and prints of George Grosz (1893-1959). They teem with the  characters who gave the capital of the Weimar Republic its  by turns dangerously seductive and repulsive face: the  prostitutes and pimps, the beggars and black marketers, the  scheming politicians, vengeful military and judiciary, the  dissatisfied workers and self-important bourgeoisie. In  Grosz's work we can follow, through at first politically  committed but then increasingly disillusioned eyes, the  course of Germany from defeat in the First World War  through economic and political crisis to the rise and  triumph of Fascism. Given Grosz's stature and the  still-growing interest in modern German art, it is  extraordinary that the exhibition at the Royal Academy will  be the first in Britain since 1962. It will include about  150 of his finest works on paper and will show a number of  major works never previously seen. The catalogue will also  provide information, unfamiliar to a non-German audience,  about a fascinating and complex artist: several of Grosz's  key theoretical essays and most of his revealing letters  have never been translated into English.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1391143},
}