{"title":"George Grosz","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the biting satire and stark social commentary of George Grosz. A key figure in Dadaism and the New Objectivity movement, Grosz's art fearlessly confronts the Weimar Republic. Discover his powerful works.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"small-yes-and-a-big-no-book-george-grosz-9780850314557","title":"Small Yes and a Big No","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49517105053969,"sku":"GOR003024647","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51712892043537,"sku":"GOR009388082","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0850314550.jpg?v=1751396647"},{"product_id":"love-above-all-and-other-drawings-book-george-grosz-9780486226750","title":"Love Above All and Other Drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eOn an Expense Account, for example, shows a well-fed businessman and his wife. We see only his back and neck, note her tastelessly modish skirts, and we know the whole story. 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. Lunch depicts a matron with unmistakably porcine features holding knife and fork affectedly as she swills. Her dining partner needs no animalization; the blasé bag below his eye, the expression, and the fold below his chin are enough.\u003cbr\u003eCan prostitutes, contrary to sentimental folklore, appear smug, bloated with satisfaction, and wallowing in cheap gratification? See Transit Trade to realize the effects of mindless materialism. Schiller wrote, Swim if you can and if you are too weak, sink. Grosz takes this as his text for a compelling contrast between rich and poor in just two figures that completely refute the \u003ci\u003eÜbermensch\u003c\/i\u003e doctrine. Hemingway in \u003ci\u003eNada\u003c\/i\u003e did not depict more tellingly the utter despair of empty lives in the hour when the café closes than does Grosz in They Don't Sing Any More. \u003ci\u003eLove Above All?\u003c\/i\u003e We are only partway through this portfolio when we realize suddenly how bitterly sarcastic is the title.\u003cbr\u003eBut the mordant eye, angry wit, and social consciences of Grosz were shared by many of his period. What lifts his art above the transient event is his supremely eloquent use of pen and brush. No one has more expressively, piercingly, and economically, drawn the scenes of his special civilization--so strangely like ours--than did George Grosz.\u003cbr\u003eDover unabridged republication of \u003ci\u003eÜber alles di Liebe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDie Gezeichneten, \u003c\/i\u003e both Berlin, 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603689906449,"sku":"GOR005854787","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50168142004497,"sku":"CIN0486226751G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51392157876497,"sku":"NIN9780486226750","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51458450915601,"sku":"GOR009388814","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486226751.jpg?v=1751449075"},{"product_id":"small-yes-and-a-big-no-book-george-grosz-9780600207870","title":"Small Yes and a Big No","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643607490833,"sku":"GOR005032713","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49761493713169,"sku":"GOR001559566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50116845830417,"sku":"CIN0600207870G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125132562705,"sku":"CIN0600207870A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50889989226769,"sku":"GOR001318633","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0600207870.jpg?v=1750943988"},{"product_id":"george-grosz-book-george-grosz-9780520213272","title":"George Grosz","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729072234769,"sku":"NGR9780520213272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889893744913,"sku":"CIN0520213270G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50059367055633,"sku":"GOR007546810","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726903447825,"sku":"GOR009021906","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327099240721,"sku":"CIN0520213270A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520213270.jpg?v=1750741571"},{"product_id":"gross-before-grosz-book-george-grosz-9783753302041","title":"Gross before Grosz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreviously unseen early works from the Weimar Republic's greatest chronicler and satirist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is dedicated to the early life and career of the brilliant young artist Georg Ehrenfried Gross (1893-1959), who would later become known as George Grosz. Known for his politically charged paintings and caricatural depictions of Berlin life in the 1920s, the youthful Gross had a long way to go before changing his name and becoming the most popular and sharp-tongued chronicler of the Weimar Republic. Gross made his first oil paintings in 1912 while still a student, and by 1914 was working in a style deeply influenced by Expressionism, Futurism and popular illustration. Presenting over 50 works made between the years 1904 and 1917, all but a few exhibited for the first time ever, the inaugural exhibition of Das kleine Grosz Museum, and this accompanying catalog, trace the artistic and biographical trajectory of this great artist's journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743210283281,"sku":"NGR9783753302041","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52762211287313,"sku":"NIN9783753302041","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/375330204X.jpg?v=1751096071"},{"product_id":"george-grosz-ecce-homo-rare-book-george-grosz-1718781749iev","title":"George Grosz - Ecce Homo","description":"1967. First Edition. 84 pages. Dust jacket over beige cloth. Blind ex-libris stamp. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewe","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50089123774737,"sku":"1718781749IEV","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1718781749IEV_1.jpg?v=1722936007"},{"product_id":"ecce-homo-book-george-grosz-9780486234106","title":"Ecce Homo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author, a former high ranking Rosicrucian and prolific author on the subject for many years, reveals the true history of the Rosicrucian order. Many popular accounts put forth the idea that it was started in Germany in the seventeenth century by Christian Rosenkreuz, but Lewis shows how and why the order and its origins goes much further back into the past than this story relates. According to the author, there was simply a revival taking place in the seventeenth century that has continued on until today. Explore some of the world's most ancient mystical secrets, what they really mean, and why they were preserved for centuries by the Rosicrucians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50207501091089,"sku":"GOR002692894","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50942088446225,"sku":"CIN048623410XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51068467347729,"sku":"CIN048623410XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/048623410X.jpg?v=1751166458"},{"product_id":"face-of-the-ruling-class-book-george-grosz-9780850315141","title":"Face of the Ruling Class","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50331272872209,"sku":"GOR007507851","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50567035748625,"sku":"GOR005609221","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51818183065873,"sku":"GOR004191599","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/085031514X.jpg?v=1750980283"},{"product_id":"george-grosz-book-george-grosz-9783753304403","title":"George Grosz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA reexamination of an exiled German artist's final works at war's end\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman draughtsman George Grosz (1893-1959) created his last major series of paintings and watercolors, the Stick Men, beginning in the mid-1940s in reaction to the Holocaust and the other atrocities of the Second World War. The deployment of atomic bombs in Japan and the threat of a Third World War further deepened what the artist termed his despair, hate and disillusionment. In his final works, he drew his figures as dehumanized, famished beings aimlessly wandering through a contaminated, post-apocalyptic world. As the first exhibition of the Stick Men series following the artists' death, this catalog contradicts the notion that Grosz had become soft and apolitical during his years spent in the United States. Rather, this series is the culmination of the political and artistic convictions of a lifetime of struggle: a timely and relevant legacy even today. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51061535768849,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061539045649,"sku":"NIN9783753304403","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52885688385809,"sku":"CIN3753304409LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3753304409.jpg?v=1750935029"},{"product_id":"princess-in-berlin-book-george-grosz-9780316803694","title":"A Princess in Berlin","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51152245096721,"sku":"CIN0316803693G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53373939515665,"sku":"GOR006509475","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53377524105489,"sku":"GOR007287420","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316803693.jpg?v=1751357052"},{"product_id":"george-grosz-book-george-grosz-9780876639900","title":"George Grosz","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51332160586001,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332163240209,"sku":"CIN0876639902G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0876639902.jpg?v=1751202798"},{"product_id":"george-grosz-an-autobiography-book-george-grosz-9780025458307","title":"George Grosz, an Autobiography","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51694960443665,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694961688849,"sku":"CIN0025458302G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0025458302.jpg?v=1751226113"},{"product_id":"love-above-all-and-other-drawings-book-george-grosz-9780850316247","title":"Love Above All and Other Drawings","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51888740401425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51888740598033,"sku":"GOR006240361","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53077112586513,"sku":"GOR004733890","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780850316247.jpg?v=1754655731"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-george-grosz.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}