ISBN: 9780486226750 - love above all and other drawings: 120 works (dover fine art, history of art) (19 resultados)

Condición: Good. The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of the twenty-first century but in the sensation-hungry, inflation-fed milieu of the Weimar Republic.-On an Expense Account, - for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We see only his back and neck, note her tastelessly modish skirts, and we know the whole story. -Total Devotion from 5:00 to 7:00- is a cocktail-bar scene, and in the dancing of the slick-haired man and the posture of his partner there is something depraved because it is only sensual. -Lunch- depicts a matron with unmistakably porcine features holding knife and fork affectedly as she swills. Her dining partner needs no animalization; the blase bag below his eye, the expression, and the fold below his chin are enough.Can prostitutes, contrary to sentimental folklore, appear smug, bloated with satisfaction, and wallowing in cheap gratification? See -Transit Trade- to realize the effects of mindless materialism. Schiller wrote, -Swim if you can and if you are too weak, sink.- Grosz takes this as his text for a compelling contrast between rich and poor in just two figures that completely refute the Ubermensch doctrine. Hemingway in Nada did not depict more tellingly the utter despair of empty lives in the hour when the cafe closes than does Grosz in -They Don't Sing Any More.- Love Above All? We are only partway through this portfolio when we realize suddenly how bitterly sarcastic is the title.But the mordant eye, angry wit, and social consciences of Grosz were shared by many of his period. What lifts his art above the transient event is his supremely eloquent use of pen and brush. No one has more expressively, piercingly, and economically, drawn the scenes of his special civilization--so strangely like ours -- than did George Grosz.…

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Condición: Good. The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of the twenty-first century but in the sensation-hungry, inflation-fed milieu of the Weimar Republic.-On an Expense Account, - for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We see only his back and neck, note her tastelessly modish skirts, and we know the whole story. -Total Devotion from 5:00 to 7:00- is a cocktail-bar scene, and in the dancing of the slick-haired man and the posture of his partner there is something depraved because it is only sensual. -Lunch- depicts a matron with unmistakably porcine features holding knife and fork affectedly as she swills. Her dining partner needs no animalization; the blase bag below his eye, the expression, and the fold below his chin are enough.Can prostitutes, contrary to sentimental folklore, appear smug, bloated with satisfaction, and wallowing in cheap gratification? See -Transit Trade- to realize the effects of mindless materialism. Schiller wrote, -Swim if you can and if you are too weak, sink.- Grosz takes this as his text for a compelling contrast between rich and poor in just two figures that completely refute the Ubermensch doctrine. Hemingway in Nada did not depict more tellingly the utter despair of empty lives in the hour when the cafe closes than does Grosz in -They Don't Sing Any More.- Love Above All? We are only partway through this portfolio when we realize suddenly how bitterly sarcastic is the title.But the mordant eye, angry wit, and social consciences of Grosz were shared by many of his period. What lifts his art above the transient event is his supremely eloquent use of pen and brush. No one has more expressively, piercingly, and economically, drawn the scenes of his special civilization--so strangely like ours -- than did George Grosz.…

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Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Light wear, solid spine, reading copy. BP/Art/G.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Fine. Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 120 works in b&w with short intro by the artist. A collection of drawings presenting Grosz's satirical vision of Weimar-era Berlin, depicting street scenes, cabarets, prostitution, and bourgeois hypocrisy in the sharp pen-and-ink style that made him one of the most politically charged artists of the interwar period. Keywords: Weimar Satire, Berlin Cabarets, Bourgeois Society, Dada Berlin, New Objectivity, Political Caricature, Prostitution Scenes, Class Satire, Ecce Homo, German Expressionism, Pen Ink Drawing, Interwar Germany.…

Wraps. Condición: Very Good. 119 pp.Wrappers sunned, edgeworn, previous owner name on front blank.

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First Dover Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Plastic cover slightly peeling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 119 p. (chiefly illus.) 28 cm. Notes; A republication of the author's Über alles die Liebe (1930) and Die Gezeichneten (1930), with English and German captions. Subjects; Grosz, George 1893-1959. Germany ; In art. Expressionism drawing Germany. Art collections. 20th century art. 1 Kg.…

First Dover Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Plastic cover slightly peeling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 119 p. (chiefly illus.) 28 cm. Notes; A republication of the author's Über alles die Liebe (1930) and Die Gezeichneten (1930), with English and German captions. Subjects; Grosz, George 1893-1959. Germany ; In art. Expressionism drawing Germany. Art collections. 20th century art. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 119 pages. 10.50x7.75x0.25 inches. In Stock.

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