George Grosz

An Autobiography
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21327-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosz, George

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hodges, Nora

McCloskey, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).