The Berlin of George Grosz : drawings, watercolours, and prints 1912-1930.
Grosz, George, 1893-1959.; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
1997
N6888.G742 A4 1997 (Mapit)
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Title The Berlin of George Grosz : drawings, watercolours, and prints 1912-1930.
Author Grosz, George, 1893-1959.
ISBN 0300072066
9780300072068
0300072112 (pbk.)
9780300072112 (pbk.)
Published London : Royal Academy of Arts ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 1997.
Language English
Description xi, 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Call Number N6888.G742 A4 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 741.943 G91be
Summary 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.
Note Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 March-8 June 1997.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-204) and index.
Credits "First published on the occasion of the exhibition The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 March-8 June 1997"--Title page verso.
Added Corporate Author Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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The Many Faces of George Grosz / Frank Whitford
Weimar Politics and George Grosz / Christopher Clark
Grosz Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries
Grosz as an Art Theorist
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