The Visual Arts
Peter Adam The Arts of the Third Reich (Thames & Hudson). Engrossing and well-written account of the officially approved state art of Nazi Germany - a subject that for many years has been ignored or deliberately made inaccessible. Includes over three hundred illustrations, many reproduced for the first time since the war. Jost Amman The Book of Trades (Dover). The 114 woodcuts illustrate the trades and crafts practised in early sixteenth-century Germany; each is accompanied by a poem by the most famous Meistersinger, Hans Sachs. Michael Baxendall The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany (Yale UP). Examines the work of Tilman Riemenschneider, Veit Stoss and many other lesser-known artists in their social and political context. A lavish series of photographs accompanies the text. Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (Thames & Hudson). A general introduction to Germany's most distinctive contribution to twentieth-century art. Albrecht Durer The Complete Woodcuts (Dover), The Complete Etchings, Engravings and Drypoints (Dover). These two books enable you to own, at minimal cost, a complete set of the graphic work of one of the world's greatest-ever masters of the art. The book of woodcuts is particularly recommended. William Vaughan German Romantic Painting (Yale UP). A good introduction to many of Germany's best nineteenth-century artists. Frank Whiteford Baulhaus (Thames & Hudson). Introduction to the twentieth century's most influential art and design movement, tracing its development during its early years in Weimer, Dessau and Berlin.
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