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Tall, sober, handsome and immaculately dressed Satirist Grosz was born in Berlin in 1893, has been a resident of Long Island since 1934, expects to become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis...
Sixty-four Grosz drawings and a hand-colored lithograph were presented to a very select public by svelte Publisher Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press in an edition of 280 numbered copies, printed on hand-moulded paper, bound in a loose box, introduced by a little essay by myopic Novelist John Dos Passos, and priced at $50. Among the best drawings...
...satire of rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never...
...01NTERREGNUM-George Grosz, Introduction by John Dos Passos-Black Sun Press...
...entirely different type is the work "Central Park" by George Grosz. A true modernist he likes broad splashes of bright colors and brings out his ideas from impressions created by these. An other differing type also are the bitter satires of "The Senate" by William Gropper and of "Landscape Near Chicago" by Aaron Bohrod. Both of these works bring out the grotesque and the absurd in American life...