The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920sShould be pretty easy to get. While in germany, picked up this from bookstore as it was pretty cheap. Lots of pictures, plus plenty of information of this era. You'll find couple noise/PE covers from infamous artists here too. You could also see Otto Dix works in Dresden museum and with actual size of paintings like "war", its worth of ticket to see it from wall and not only book pages or internet.
New objectivity reaction against the emotional intensity and romantic idealism of Expressionism is quite interesting take, while I may prefer expressionism for depicting things that are not visible.. as opposed to just material reality. Still it feels as if the choices that is made (combined to their conclusions that material qualities represent the inner qualities) is seek for non-material ideas.
Books like this often makes me think not only the art movement in question, but the qualities of similar ideas found within noise/PE/industrial.
QuoteAt the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists―Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch―and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of the 20th Century, which portrayed both prominent and anonymous Germans from all parts of society in a simple and matter-of-fact pictorial style. Sander and the Neue Sachlichkeit artists both pursued an anti-Expressionist aesthetic, embracing social engagement and a rejection of romantic idealism. The Cold Gaze also looks at the extraordinary writers associated with the Weimar Republic, such as Vicki Baum, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Hans Fallada, Erich Kästner and Christopher Isherwood. Further points of focus by a range of contributing writers include Germany's Americanization during this period; Marcel Breuer's innovations in furniture design; the invention and ascent of the Futura font; the Weimar cult of technology; and much more.
This richly illustrated catalog unfolds a period that was at once euphoric and harsh, an extraordinary moment in modernity birthed in the shadows between two world wars.
