Volume 26, Number 5 · April 5, 1979
The Weimar Wind Tunnel
By Stephen Spender
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933
by John Willett
Pantheon, 272 pp., $17.95
Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre: 15. Europäische Kunstausstellung, Berlin 1977 Akademie der Künste, and the Grosse Orangerie at the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, August 14-October 16, 1977
Catalogue of the exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1,118 pp., $32.50
Paris/Berlin: Rapports et contrastes france-allemagne, 1900-1933 12-November 6, 1978
Catalogue of the exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, July
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 576 pp., $25.00
The period between 1917 and 1933 in Germany, Austria, and most other countries of Central Europe seems today like some terrible subsidence of history, a grand canyon. At the bottom of this canyon we see a life going on that was particularly active in literature and all the arts. Centered on Berlin it radiates outward over the rest of Germany during the years of the Weimar Republic.
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