Loading images...
Grosz, by Lars Fiske
€7.00
Quay Books
George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German fine artist, cartoonist, and teacher who drew from pop culture, was active in the Dada and New Objectivist movements, and was an influence for artists like Ben Shahn. (His antiwar painting, 'Eclipse from the Sun', would inspire Vietnam protesters.)
In this graphic biography, written and drawn by Fiske, angular art lays Kandinsky-like lines over scenes set in anything-goes, post–World War I Berlin: connecting, emphasizing, tracing movement. Curves evoke the fleshy sex of Grosz’s work. (Fiske channels the exuberance and fascination with line that typified Grosz’s work, and more generally early to mid-century art movements.)
Symbolically, Fiske uses two colours - red for Berlin, a slash of Grosz’s lipstick, a flash of tie - and green for the jazz and trains of New York, where Grosz would flee from Nazi Germany.
Fiske’s thoughtful Grosz is a far cry from the plodding pedantry of the graphic hagiographies that earnestly clutter library shelves; it’s a work of art in its own right.
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
Returns of Marxism: Marxist Theory in a Time of Crisis, Edited by Sara R Farris
€6.00
€18.00
66% off
The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II, by Denise George & Robert Child
€7.00
€25.00
72% off
Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, by Corrado Vivanti
€9.00
€28.00
67% off
Hello Red Fox, by Eric Carle
€9.00
€21.00
57% off
Maoism: A Global History, by Julia Lovell
€10.00
€34.00
70% off
The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
€5.00
€13.00
61% off
Afraid, by Mandasue Heller
€4.00
€13.00
69% off
The Glorious Guinness Girls: A story of the scandals and secrets of the famous society girls, by Emily Hourican
€4.00
€13.00
69% off