Chapter 40 Translator's Notes of "Paris of the Art Metropolis" [1]

Translator's Notes of "Paris of the Art Metropolis" [1] George Grosz (George Grosz) [2] is a relatively familiar painter in China. He was originally a member of the Tata School [3], but he later became a revolutionary fighter; his works have also been published in several Chinese magazines [4]. Introduced several times. "Paris as an Art Metropolis", translated as it is, should be "Paris as an Art Metropolis" (Paris alskunststadt), an article in "Art is Falling" (Die Kunstin Gefahr), co-authored with Wieland Herzfelde[5], in fact he Do it alone, Herzfelde is the friend who first tried to help him publish.

Some parts of his article were difficult for the translator to understand. After referring to the Japanese translation of Yoshi Aso [6], he was still not clear, so when I think about it, there must be mistakes and inaccuracies in the translation.But we can roughly know that Paris was the center of art before the European War. Although it seemed to be slightly better than Germany later, this is the result of the difference between victory and defeat, and it is just a product of the victor's self-consolation. The book was published in 1925, and it has been ten years now, but most of it is still applicable.

※ ※ ※ [1] This article, together with the translation of "Paris in the Art Metropolis", was originally published in the first issue of Volume 1 of the monthly "Translation" in September 1934, signed by Ru Chun. [2] Gross (1893-1959) German painter.Works include "The Face of the Dominant Class" and "Such a Human Being" and other albums. 〔3〕Tada School is Dadaism, a bourgeois literary school popular in Switzerland, the United States, and France during the First World War.It opposes all artistic laws, denies the ideological significance of artistic images, and expresses incredible things with chaotic language and grotesque and absurd images.

[4] Several magazines refer to the February 1930 "Sprout" monthly magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, and the March of the same year, "Popular Literature and Art" monthly magazine, Volume 2, No. 3. [5] Wieland Herzfelde, Biography unknown. 〔6〕Yoshi Aso, that is, Yoshiki Aso (1901-1938), a researcher in the history of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy, wrote "History of Modern Japanese Philosophy" and so on.