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World War I and the Weimar artists

World War I and the Weimar artists

Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer

By Matthias Eberle

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Publish Date

1985

Publisher

Yale University Press

Language

eng

Pages

134

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).