Love Above All and Other Drawings: 120 Works Grosz George Paperback
Love Above All and Other Drawings: 120 Works Grosz George Paperback The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is…
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Love Above All and Other Drawings: 120 Works Grosz George Paperback
The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. -On an Expense Account, - for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of the twenty-first century but in the sensation-hungry, inflation-fed milieu of the Weimar Republic.
-Total Devotion from 5:00 to 7:00- is a cocktail-bar scene, and in the dancing of the slick-haired man and the posture of his partner there is something depraved because it is only sensual. We see only his back and neck, note her tastelessly modish skirts, and we know the whole story. -Lunch- depicts a matron with unmistakably porcine features holding knife and fork affectedly as she swills.
Her dining partner needs no animalization; the blase bag below