Volume 44, Number 13 · August 14, 1997
Hello to Berlin
By Anthony Grafton
The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
by Brian Ladd
University of Chicago Press, 271 pp., $29.95
The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930
by Frank Whitford
Royal Academy of Arts/Yale University Press, 212 pp., $50.00
Adolph Menzel (1815-1905): Between Romanticism and Impressionism
edited by Claude Keisch, edited by Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher
National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 480 pp., $65.00
Berlin: The City and the Court Smith.
by Jules Laforgue
Turtle Point Press, 220 pp., $13.95 (paper)
George Grosz: Berlin-New York
edited by Peter-Klaus Schuster
Nationalgalerie Berlin/Ars Nicolai, 590 pp., $120.00 (paper)
Reading Berlin 1900
by Peter Fritzsche
Harvard University Press, 308 pp., $39.95
The Writing on the Walls: Projections in Berlin's Jewish Quarter
by Shimon Attie
Edition Braus, 78 pp., $45.00
Along Schlobstrasse in the Berlin neighborhood of Steglitz, prosperous shoppers swarm past bright show windows crammed with gleaming appliances, pastel-colored clothing, and fragrant pastries. Though the German economy has sputtered, and sometimes staggered, in recent years, no one here would suspect that. Middle-aged couples, modestly dressed, happily pay prices twice or three times as high as they would be in an American mall—one sees parents casually laying down a hundred dollars a pair for German blue jeans for their teenaged children.
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