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 enlarge | Authors: Sabine Rewald, Ian Buruma, Matthias Eberle
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 268300
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
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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Beautiful catalog for March 8, 2007
Timothy Hailand
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The BEST museum show I have seen in a long time. Sabine Rewald is a truly great curator, the book is smart and well designed, great color reproductions.
 You can't go wrong with German Expressionism January 29, 2007
yellow menace (new york, ny)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
How can you say "no" to Otto Dix?? Well...you can't! The actual exhibit at the Met was good (although I thought it'd be bigger) and relatively informative, but the book gets into depths the exhibit couldn't. Ideally you should see the exhibit and thoroughly read the book. You can't quite get the experience of seeing the works within the book, and you can't exactly get the knowledge of just reading the little blurbs that are glued beside each piece in the exhibit. br / br /The book explores the themes of German life before the world turned on itself and the second world war exploded. For the money it's worth the dive into the celebrated, vastly entertaining, stunningly morbid and little studied area of German Expressionism. It's not too late...go out and there and see the exhibit. And then buy the book, since that's what the Met would like you to do.
More DOOM than glitter December 7, 2006
Christopher E. Bivona (Queens, New York)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is an amazing art book about the German underworld in the 1920s before the reign of Hitler during the fall of the Weimar Republic after World War I. This book contains mainly dark and disturbing art pieces that are featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through February 2007. Very interesting to read about and it basically sums up the entire collection and more that are featured at the MET. Great book... not for the squimish. This book is really very dark and it does tell the true story of Germany during the 20s.
A Lively Look at the Decadence of the Weimar Republic Years November 30, 2006
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Author Sabine Rewald has written a fascinating survey that integrates the German psyche of the period between the gloom of World War I with its decimation of hope for a revolution and the rise of Hitler who ended any fantasies about the dreams of glitter that infused the artists and wealthy people of Germany. br / br /In this beautifully designed and lushly illustrated book are the works of the major artists of the time, the ones we immediately recognize such as Otto Dix, Georg Grosz and Max Beckmann, as well as names less familiar to the general reading audience. These artists captured the decadence and 'cabaret' atmosphere that permeated the denying culture, using as models not only fellow artists and actors but also the spectrum from prostitutes and crime bosses to doctors and lawyers, none being shown in a very flattering light. br / br /The many illustrations in the book are true to the original color and seem to capture the delusional elegance and grime that mixed the time so well. The portraits are veneer-like in that they depicted the doomed generation of people on the brink of destruction. If ever there existed a book that reveals the 'decay' and decadence against which Hitler railed this is it. The author wisely elected to employ essayists Ian Buruma and Matthias Eberle whose contributions to the flavor of the times and the influence of the disintegration of morals and taste make the texts readable and very informative. br / br /Yale University Press has once again produced an art volume that focuses on a certain period of time that influenced the development of art in the history of a change - in visual art, in literature (from German writers as well as those who flocked to Berlin such as Christopher Isherwood), in music, and in film. It is a book of great importance and one that encourages repeated readings. Grady Harp, November 06 br / br /
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