Love Above All and Other Drawings

Love Above All and Other DrawingsThe locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of the twenty first century but in the sensation hungry, inflation fed milieu of the Weimar Republic. "On an Expense Account," for example, shows a well fed businessman and his wife. We see only his back

This book explains and illustrates techniques still employed 150 years later — including the author's patented invention

Some of his inferences have been invalidated by subsequent scholarship

rare prints

books on taschen

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most are substantial middle-class homes

Reprint of the Academic Press Limited

Revised 1962 Dover edition

These difficulties are counterbalanced by abundant rewards

Einstein's theory of general relativity

accompanied by twenty annotations that offer in-depth explorations of common themes such as historic design influences and ethnic inspiration

Elementary functions are given a more detailed treatment than is usual for a book at this level