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Envisioning America: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by George Grosz and his Contemporaries, 1915-1930, on display at the Fogg now, is a relatively cohesive exhibition featuring a number of provocative pieces from this time of flux in German culture...
Although George Grosz, as the central artist of the show, is the most widely represented, his works do not present any stronger images or critiques than those of the other artists. Stylistically, the pieces are little more than sketches, characterized by bold strokes and two-dimensionality. They acquire their value mainly from the compelling German perspective on the American culture...
Juxtaposition of contradictory images is a favorite technique of these artists. Another piece which does this admirably is Grosz's "Keep Smiling," portaying a well-dressed urban man, whose capital silouhette is suggestive of the lines of a machine, under a dollar-sign halo. The man is stamped "100% U.S.A.," and is stereotypical of the mechanized and greedy citizen of metropolital America...
...glitter for a while, but the economy nonetheless went into a long decline because the stagnation was too widespread and deep rooted to be cured by tinkering. Party boss Janos Kadar, the quisling who had replaced Nagy, was ousted in May 1988. He was succeeded by moderate reformer Karoly Grosz. But as in the Soviet Union, moderate reform was, by definition, inadequate. Drastic measures were necessary and, in the Gorbachev era, acceptable to Moscow. In search of new ideas and a democratic image in January 1989, parliament passed legislation permitting the formation of opposition political parties for the next election...
...debate whether great forces or great men move the world. By unleashing the forces of democracy, Gorbachev gave new luster to the great-man theory. He may not be able to control those forces himself. They could even sweep him away, just as they did Egon Krenz and Karoly Grosz and Milos Jakes. But no matter what happens next in the great Eurasian land mass where 1.8 billion people live under communism -- and no matter what happens to Gorbachev himself -- he has established his place in history as the catalyst of a new European reality. "Any nation has the right...