George Grosz: An Autobiography
This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union—omitted from the original English-language edition—as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.
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George Grosz: An Autobiography
This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union—omitted from the original English-language edition—as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.
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This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a world gone mad is as acute and provocative as the art that depicts it, and this translation of a work long out of print restores the spontaneity, humor, and energy of the author's German text. It also includes a chapter on Grosz's experience in the Soviet Union—omitted from the original English-language edition—as well as more writings about his twenty-year self-imposed exile in America, and a fable written in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520213272
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 04/17/1998
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 325
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

George Grosz was born in 1893 in Berlin and, after twenty years in the U.S., he died in 1959. Born in Vienna, Nora Hodges was at the center of the European art world in the 1920s. Barbara McCloskey teaches Art History at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 (1997).

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
FOREWORD 
PREFACE 
BEGINNINGS: POMERANIA 
PEEKING INTO THE THIRTEENTH ROOM 
IKNOWWHATIWANT 
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART 
BROADENING HORIZONS 
STARTING MY OWN LIFE 
TO BERLIN 
PRIVATE GROSZ 
HOME TO BERLIN 
DADA 
THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC 
RUSSIA IN 1922 
FRIENDS AND OTHER FACES 
A FAIRY STORY 
A CHANGE OF AIR 
NEW YORK IN JUNE 
ON BECOMING AMERICAN 
MAKING GOOD IN AMERICA 
ART LOOKS FOR BREAD 
GERMANS IN AMERICA 
AMERICA, THE BIG 2
THE PAINTER ENTERS HIS STUDIO 
EPILOGUE 
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