'The World Made Safe for Democracy'

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'The World Made Safe for Democracy'

Alternate Title: Die vollendete Demokratie
Edition: 119/125 of edition C
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Gott mit Uns
Portfolio (translation): God with us
Plate: plate 7
Germany, 1919
Prints; lithographs
Photolithograph on G. F. Drey Könige laid paper
Image (Image): 17 1/2 x 11 15/16 in. (44.45 x 30.3213 cm) Sheet: 19 × 15 3/8 in. (48.26 × 39.05 cm) Frame: 23 × 19 × 1 3/8 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.49 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.73f)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

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  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer.  The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.  Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Rigby, Ida Katherine. An alle Künstler! : War-Revolution-Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.  San Diego : San Diego State University Press, 1983.
  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

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  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 19191933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.


  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.
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