Constructing the World: Art and Economy 1919-1939 (Paperback)

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.