Glitter And Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s - Hardcover

Rewald, Sabine; Buruma, Ian; Eberle, Matthias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300117884 ISBN 13: 9780300117882

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006

Synopsis

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 p

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About the Author:

Sabine Rewald is Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator in the Department of 19th-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ian Buruma teaches at Bard College, Annandale, New York, and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Matthias Eberle is Professor of Cultural History, Kunsthochscule, Berlin.   

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300117884
• ISBN 13: 9780300117882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304