Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sabine Rewald, Ian Buruma, Matthias Eberle
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.9 x 1
ISBN: 0300117884
Dewey Decimal Number: 757.09430747471
EAN: 9780300117882
ASIN: 0300117884
Publication Date: December 1, 2006
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DIVIn 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.BRIGlitter and DoomB /B/Iis 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#8217; 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./DIV
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Nice Book May 15, 2008
P. Nelson (USA)
This is a nice book an the subject. Nice large plates, a must for any good art book. That's it--if you like paintings from this genre buy it.
Incredible artwork January 27, 2008
Amanda
I saw the collection that the Met had last year of this artwork and it was just amazing. It was provocative and raw, and just incredible. I can't wait for the paperback to come out of this so that I can afford it.
Long Wait for an Excellent Book May 12, 2007
Tatzelwurm (Idaho)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Finally an excellent review of what the first World War did to German culture and psyche. This book lays it all out. Hitler was a logical consequence. Unfortunately the Western world did not pay enough attention to these portentious signs. The book has beautiful color reproductions, great detailed commentary on each artist featured and enaough historical commentary to make it all plausible.
A beautiful exhibition April 8, 2007
Claude Reich (Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the catalogue for a beautiful exhibition held at the Met last year. The paintings reproduced here are among the best examples of the New Objectivity, a movement that was able to depict the atmosphere, the soul, the world of the Weimar Republic, that brief time span when pre-war Germany enjoyed freedom in the arts and in the minds. These gripping paintings show how ultimately doomed that world was and how the artists were the first to sense the tragic developments that were to succeed it. The front cover, a detail of one of Christian Schad's best known paintings, is a perfect illustration of a society that seems to have enjoyed life knowing that death would come too soon, with the end of that joyful and poetic decadence that was the Berlin of the 1920's.
Glitter and Doom March 22, 2007
Renee Recker
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Twice viewed the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum here in New York. German art in the 20s is raw, obscene and decadent. A raucus reflection on hard times there. They had just suffered WW1, in the midst of fascism, insane inflation, etc. br / Highlight: Otto Dix is a wild artist, forever a favorite now. Also a DaDa artist. br /I am a frequent art museum visitor. Therefore, in my opinion, this catalogue did the show great justice which is not aways the case.
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