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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Like New. First Edition, Second Printing. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University, 2006. Quarto. Pictorial wraps. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Covers have very light shelf wear. 292 pages. ISBN: 1588392007. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Very good. No markings, Spine uncreased. Gently used. 292 p. Contains: Illustrations. Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications. Audience: General/trade.
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Fine. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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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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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0300117884. Text clean and tight; small scratch to back of dust jacket; NOTE: additional postage may be necessary for international shipping; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 304 pages.
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VG (scratches to glossy wraps. edge-wear to wraps. rubbing to corners. ) Color-illustrated softcover; 292 pp.; 230 illus., 169 bw, 135 color illus. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which was held November 14, 2006-February 10, 2007; Contains works by Otto Dix, Christian Schad, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, and others; Includes essays by Matthias Eberle, Ian Buruma, Catherine Heroy, and Sabine Rewald and a political chronology of the Weimar Republic.
