Bitter witness : Otto Dix and the Great War /

"Bitter Witness is a study of Otto Dix's war-related art. It is the first book to place Dix's etching cycle, Der Krieg, alongside numerous paintings and drawings in the perspective of his war experience on two fronts from mid-1915 to 1918's finale

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGreevy, Linda F
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 1998
Series:German life and civilization ; v. 27
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Description
Summary:"Bitter Witness is a study of Otto Dix's war-related art. It is the first book to place Dix's etching cycle, Der Krieg, alongside numerous paintings and drawings in the perspective of his war experience on two fronts from mid-1915 to 1918's finale
It includes a full history of the war, the Weimar Republic's socio-political upheavals, and the Nazi years, following Dix and his colleagues, including Kaethe Kollwitz, through the artistic movements and events in the first half of Germany's most turbulent century."--BOOK JACKET
Physical Description:xxi, 467 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-446) and index
ISBN:0820441066