SPLENDOR AND MISERY

After the abysmal experiences of the First World War, art demanded a new representation of reality. Resignation, accusation and unspeakable misery on the one hand, hope, longing and the growing enthusiasm for life of the so-called "golden twenties" on the other, should describe this momentous phenomenon in a new way: unsentimental. , sober, concrete and purist, In summary: in an objectively realistic way, the New Objectivity opposed an illusionistic expressionism that could not register the situation of intellectual and political cris...[Llegir més]