Love Above All and Other Drawings: 120 Works

by George Grosz

Book Overview

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. 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.
"On an Expense Account," for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We see only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486226751
• ISBN13: 9780486226750
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 11.0"