In the 1920s Germany was in the grip of social and political turmoil: its citizens were disillusioned by defeat in World War I, the failure of revolution, the disintegration of their social system, and inflation of rampant proportions. Curiously, as this important book shows, these years of upheaval were also a time of creative ferment and innovative accomplishment in literature, theater, film, and art. "Glitter and Doom "is the first publication to focus exclusively on portraits dating from the short-lived Weimar Republic ...
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In the 1920s Germany was in the grip of social and political turmoil: its citizens were disillusioned by defeat in World War I, the failure of revolution, the disintegration of their social system, and inflation of rampant proportions. Curiously, as this important book shows, these years of upheaval were also a time of creative ferment and innovative accomplishment in literature, theater, film, and art. "Glitter and Doom "is the first publication to focus exclusively on portraits dating from the short-lived Weimar Republic. It features forty paintings and sixty drawings by key artists, including Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, and George Grosz. Their works epitomize Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular the branch of that new form of realism called Verism, which took as its subject contemporary phenomena such as war, social problems, and moral decay. Subjects of their incisive portraits are the artists' own contemporaries: actors, poets, prostitutes, and profiteers, as well as doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and other respectable citizens. The accompanying texts reveal how these portraits hold up a mirror to the glittering, vital, doomed society that was obliterated when Hitler came to power.
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Very Good + German Portraits from the 1920s. Large 8vo. xii, 292 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Full-color frontispiece and illustrations throughout, chiefly color. Includes bibliography and index. Very Good+, previous owner's bookplate to inside front cover. Very Good+, scuffing and wear to wrappers, otherwise clean, solid copy.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., one little scratch to dj rear panel. no other flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps, creases. strong binding.; xii-292pp., 230 illustrations, including 135 in color., essays by the author, and ian buruma and matthias eberle. catalogue and reference material. focus on the weimar era, neue sachlichkeit, dix, grosz, hubbuch, schad, schlichter, beckmann.
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