Book Reviews -- German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism Edited by Rose-Carol Washton Long / Autrian Expressionism by Patrick Werkner and Translated by Nicholas T. Parsons

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Rose-Carol Washton Long, ed. German expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993. 349 pp.; 50 b/w ills. $45.00

Patrick Werkner. Austrian Expressionism: The Formative Years. Trans. Nicholas T. Parsons. Palo Alto, Calif.: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1993. 309 pp.; 166 b/w ills. $49.50

The book of documents on German Expressionist art, edited by Rose-Carol Washton Long, is a welcome addition to the flood of books that have been published on that subject in recent decades. Its voice is serious and sober amid the proliferating large-format catalogues and artist's monographs …