GROSZ: GEORGE GROSZ. BERLIN-NEW YORK

Published for a major exhibition to be held in Rome this monograph devoted to George Grosz is a substantially rich outline of the artists career as it developed within the Italian cultural and critical perspective. The over 500 illustrations including drawings and paintings, document this Berlin-born artists production both in Germany and during his time in America. The catalogue includes drawings by the fifteen-year-old Grosz from the city of his birth in Pomerania, works dating from the Weimar Republic period and drawings from the USA which illustrated Nazi Germany and the war in Europe. Moreover, sketches are included of stage designs he created between 1919 and 1954 for theatre pieces by Bernard Shaw, Iwan Goll, Georg Kaiser, Paul Zech, Jaroslav Kasek and numerous collages from 1959 in Pop Art style. The volume is completed with hitherto unpublished photos from the painters private life that add to our understanding of the environment in which his artistic personality developed; an essay by Enrico Crispolti, Grosz and Italy: debts, attention, influences, circulation (outlines for a study); and one by Philippe Dagen, 'Not too bitter, Herr Grosz!' dealing with his American years.