World War I and the Weimar Artists
Subtitle: Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780300035575
Subjects: Painting & paintings; History - General; Art And Society; Art & Art Instruction; 20th century; Art, German; Artists; Biography; Germany; Neue Sachlichkeit (Art); Art
Description: Elemental forces and mechanical power -- Otto Dix: fighting for a lost cause (art versus nature) -- George Grosz: the irate dandy (art as weapon in the class struggle) -- Max Beckmann: the tragic king (art as a search for meaning -transcendental objectivity) -- Oskar Schlemmer: Adam transformed into Prometheus by geometry (transcendental anatomy).