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Grosz

By: Ivo Kranzfelder,George Grosz

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Savage caricatures: Acerbic painting as social commentary George Grosz (1893-1959) was one of the most important exponents of Dadaism, and therefore of political painting in general. He not only condemned both militarism and bourgeois culture, but also set himself in opposition to traditional forms of art. The decisive element in Grosz's paintings is their content: in them he pointed out defects in the political and social conditions, literally arraigning them before the public. For Grosz, painting served as a political instrument: "I drew and painted from a sense of contradiction and through my work tried to convince the world that it was ugly, sick, and phony." Fascinated by the metropolis, Grosz depicted the wild and dissolute life in the bars and nightclubs of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. He directed his attention to the shady side of life and filled his canvas with caricatures of distorted figures. Grosz never permitted human beings to emerge as individuals, but instead always portrayed types, as representatives of a social level or class. After the publication of his candidly drawn "pornographic illustrations," Grosz fell under strong criticism in the 1920s. The Nazis castigated his works as "degenerate art." About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions

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Taschen America Llc

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3822808911

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9783822808917

An Autobiography

By: George Grosz

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An Autobiography

By: George Grosz

This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union—omitted from the original English-language edition—as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.

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Univ of California Press

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0520213270

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9780520213272

The Berlin of George Grosz

Drawings, Watercolours, and Prints 1912-1930

By: George Grosz,Frank Whitford,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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The Berlin of George Grosz

Drawings, Watercolours, and Prints 1912-1930

By: George Grosz,Frank Whitford,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Including 150 work on paper as well as several of the artist's key theoretical essays and letters, this text is the catalogue for a 1997 Royal Academy exhibition of the drawings, watercolours and prints of George Grosz.

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Yale University Press

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0300072066

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9780300072068

An Autobiography

By: George Grosz

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By: George Grosz

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The Berlin of George Grosz

Drawings, Watercolours, and Prints 1912-1930

By: George Grosz,Frank Whitford,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Drawings, Watercolours, and Prints 1912-1930

By: George Grosz,Frank Whitford,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

By: George Heard Hamilton

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Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

By: George Heard Hamilton

This new edition of 'a book that offers the best available grounding in its huge subject,' as the Sunday Times called it, includes color plates and a revised and expanded bibliography. Professor Hamilton traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The result is an authoritative guide through the forest of artistic labels-Impressionism and Expressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism, etc.-and to the achievements of Degas and Cezanne, Ensor and Munch, Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani, Utrillo and Chagall, Klee, Henry Moore, and many other artists in a revolutionary age.

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0300056494

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9780300056495

Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love

An Essay on Sexualities, Family and the Law

By: Toula Nicolacopoulos,George Vassilacopoulos

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Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love

An Essay on Sexualities, Family and the Law

By: Toula Nicolacopoulos,George Vassilacopoulos

This study presents an original interpretation of the meaning and complex inter-relationship of the concepts of love, sexuality, family and the law. It argues that they should be understood as forms of interplay between the subjective and the objective, necessity and contingency and unity and difference. A comprehensive elaboration of these forms is to be found in Hegel¿s Science of Logic¿the conclusions of which he used to organise his ethical and political thought. The argument is introduced with a discussion of the relevance of Hegel¿s speculative philosophy to modernity. The authors then explore the relationship between thought, being and recognition in Hegel¿s philosophical system and offer an interpretation of the Science of Logic. This interpretation forms the basis of a re-assessment of Hegel¿s treatment of love, sexual relationships, the family and law. A Hegelian account of familial love is employed to review recent debates within a range of discourses, including feminism, family law and gay and lesbian studies. As well as addressing current concerns about sexual difference and the ontology of homosexuality, the study provides a guide to reading Hegel in an original and productive way. It will be of interest to philosophers, feminists, theorists of sexualities, ethical and legal theorists.

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re.press

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0980668387

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9780980668384

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The Berlin of George Grosz

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An Autobiography

The Berlin of George Grosz

The Berlin of George Grosz

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love

Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love

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