Otto Dix and the New Objectivity by Daniel Spanke, Olaf Peters, Ilka Voermann, Anne Soll, Birgit Schwarz, Nils Buttner, James A. Van Dyke, Julia Bulk - 2012

Hatje Cantz 2013. Hardcover, 255 pages, ENG, 305 x 240 x 25 mm, as New, dustjacket, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9783775734912. The Neue Sachlichkeit: I invented it." Thus Otto Dix (1891-1969), looking back with characteristic directness, chose to rewrite the development of the art movement that can be considered the "third path"--alongside Abstraction and Expressionism--taken by progressive artists in the modern era. Situated somewhere between the grotesque and the classical, Dix's harsh, unrelenting realism produced some of the most horrific depictions of the First World War, and some of the most critical portrayals of the Weimar Republic. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, Otto Dix and New Objectivity is the first publication to fully illuminate the Neue Sachlichkeit against the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. The exhibition brings together around 120 works to investigate what characterizes the New Objectivity… Read More