George Grosz and the Communist Party
Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936
Seiten
1997
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-02725-8 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-02725-8 (ISBN)
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Denounced by the Nazis as Germany's "Cultural Bolshevist Number One", Grosz was the Communist Party's leading and most notorious artist. Drawing on Communist Party press reports, documents and proceedings, this book shows, however, that his art was actually more controversial for the Party.
George Grosz occupied the forefront of German Expressionism, Dadaism and New Objectivity in the years before Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In the aftermath of World War One, the November Revolution and the founding of the Communist Party in 1918, Grosz also became the Communist Party's leading and most notorious artist. His bitterly satirical drawings of bloated capitalists, sadisitic militarists and fatuous government and church officials served as the focus of public controversy that landed Grosz in court on three separate occasions during the 1920s. In the 1930s, the Nazis denounced him as Germany's "Cultural Bolshevist Number One". This book, however shows that his art and activities were actually equally, if not more, more controversial for the Communist Party, in whose name Grosz carried out his work. Drawing on Communist Party press reports, documents and congress proceedings, the book explores Grosz's changing involvement with the Party and provides a history of the often tense and uncertain relationship between vanguard art and revolutionary politics during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic.
Continuing her account with his emigration to New York in 1933, McCloskey documents Grosz's interaction with prominent members of New York's anti-Stalinist left, where conflicts with the Communist Party profoundly influence Grosz's final rejection not only of Communism, but also of art in the service of politics.
George Grosz occupied the forefront of German Expressionism, Dadaism and New Objectivity in the years before Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In the aftermath of World War One, the November Revolution and the founding of the Communist Party in 1918, Grosz also became the Communist Party's leading and most notorious artist. His bitterly satirical drawings of bloated capitalists, sadisitic militarists and fatuous government and church officials served as the focus of public controversy that landed Grosz in court on three separate occasions during the 1920s. In the 1930s, the Nazis denounced him as Germany's "Cultural Bolshevist Number One". This book, however shows that his art and activities were actually equally, if not more, more controversial for the Communist Party, in whose name Grosz carried out his work. Drawing on Communist Party press reports, documents and congress proceedings, the book explores Grosz's changing involvement with the Party and provides a history of the often tense and uncertain relationship between vanguard art and revolutionary politics during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic.
Continuing her account with his emigration to New York in 1933, McCloskey documents Grosz's interaction with prominent members of New York's anti-Stalinist left, where conflicts with the Communist Party profoundly influence Grosz's final rejection not only of Communism, but also of art in the service of politics.
Barbara McCloskey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh.
| Zusatzinfo | 59 halftones 5 line illus. |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 197 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-02725-0 / 0691027250 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-02725-8 / 9780691027258 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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