GEORGE GROSZ. With An Essay By The Artist. Introduction By Ruth Berenson & Norbert Muhlen. Edited By Herbert Bittner

Grosz, George & Herbert Bittner (Editor)

Published by NY. 1960. Arts Inc. / A Golden Griffin Book

About this Item

black cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 9"x11"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. signed on the front flyleaf by Wes Herschensohn, noted illustrator & author. otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond., old piece of tape inside, 2" tear rear flap edge, 1cm piece misising, rear flap edge at top, 1cm tear on rear, minor wrinkling, flaps inside chipped at top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no inking or underlining or notes to text, no remainder markings. first edition. first printing (NAP). b&w portrait of Grosz. 51 pages of text + 108 plates in glossy color and b&w. bibliography. catalogue of plates. art history. biography. memoirs. autobiography. surrealism. dada. ~ Here is the first and only comprehensive collection of Grosz' works ever published. It presents the paintings and drawings of his two worlds~Germany after World War I ,and the America of New York, Cape Cod and Huntington, Long Island ~ in all their fascinating variety and complexity. Many of these, especially from the artist's American period, are published for the first time. Included are not only those items which fully reveal his familiar, passionate, social~protest artistry, but also works which for pure draftsmanship rank him with the masters. The essay by Grosz illuminates brilliantly the philosophy behind his works, particularly those of his later, American, period.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GEORGE GROSZ. With An Essay By The Artist. Introduction By Ruth Berenson & Norbert Muhlen. Edited By Herbert Bittner
• Publisher: NY. 1960. Arts Inc. / A Golden Griffin Book
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • art history
  • memoirs
  • biography