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| | THE BROOKLYN RAIL - ART |
 | | Between the years 1919 and 1933, the Weimar Republic was a world leader in art, and Die Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity) exerted a decisive influence on the development of the arts, turning attention away from the main currents of the avant-garde and to the exploration of new directions. |
 | | For the artists of Neue Sachlichkeit, their caricatured iconography was an objective representation of the world: the faces of power, military violence, abject poverty, corruption, human decay, prostitution, and decadence. |
 | | Neue Sachlichkeit was also a form of political dissent in a time of a savage political and ideological battle in Weimar, a dissent in fl and white and no grays; unfortunately it failed and in 1933 the Germans elected Hitler. |
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