Comic grotesque
Subtitle: wit and mockery in German art, 1870-1940
By: edited for Neue Galerie New York by Pamela Kort ; with contributions by Hanne Bergius ... [et. al.]
Contributors: Kort, Pamela, 1955-; Bergius, Hanne.; Neue Galerie New York.
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Grotesque in art.; Art, Modern -- 20th century.; Art, Modern -- 19th century.; Art, German -- 20th century.; Art, German -- 19th century.
Notes: "This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibtion ... Neue Galerie New York, October 15, 2004-February 14, 2005.--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The grotesque : Modernism's other / Pamela Kort; title: The reality of the grotesque : Paul Klee, Hugo Ball, and Carl Einstein / Gregor Wedekind; title: Paul Scheerbart : the cosmocomic / Lisbeth Exner; title: Grotesque and carnivalesque : negation and renewal around 1900 / Peter Jelavich; title: Karl Valentin : media craftsman of the grotesque / Klaus Gronenborn; title: Mynona : a grotesque humorist / Lisbeth Exner; title: Dada grotesque / Hanne Bergius; title: From heav'n on high : the Prussian archangel / Ralf Burmeister; title: Profound play : the image tradition of comic grotesque / Frances S. Connelly; title: Reason's dream, reason's nightmare / Robert Storr.