Constructing the World Art and Economy 1919–1939 Published by Kerber. Edited by Ulrike Lorenz, Eckhart Gillen. Text by Helen Adkins, Elmar Altvater, Makeda Best, Daniel Bulatov, Hiltrud Thomas Flierl, Eckhart Gillen, Larne Abse Gogarty, Hans Günther, Karoline Hille, et al. Constructing the World traces the global convergence of artistic vocabularies—principally realism and the New Objectivity—between 1919 and 1939, also showing how the economic crisis of 1929 affected art. Works by Alexander Deineka, Otto Dix, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gustavs Klucis, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Reginald Marsh, Yury Pimenov, Alexander Rodchenko, Charles Sheeler, Karl Völckers, Grant Wood and others are included.
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