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Title: Lustmord by Maria M. Tatar ISBN: 0-691-04338-8 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 April, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: cogent analysis of violence in an out of control culture
Comment: I picked this book up at a used bookstore on a whim and found it rivetting. It is an incredible read becuase the author doesn't try to sensationalize the material. She has found some incredible material and makes it relevant to what is going on today. Some of the pictures are really upsetting but I think the author wants to make a point about what we accept as art.

Rating: 2
Summary: Great morbid pictures, tedious writing...
Comment: I bought this book hoping that it would plunge me into the decadent, violent world of Weimar Germany but I was EXTREMELY disappointed. First of all, there's actually very little about Kurten and Haarmann, so do not buy this if you're a fan of true crime books. They are discussed only briefly before Tatar launches into a poor psychological exploration of Otto Dix and George Grosz, two of Germany's most disturbing artists of this century (or any other, for that matter). Tatar tries to draw lots of obscure parallels between the horrors of WWI and violence against women in Weimar society, seemingly forgetting that violence was affecting EVERYBODY at the time, not just women. Germany was a homicidal mess after WWI- women were not the only victims, although Tatar would have us believe so. She then turns around and seems to praise the artistic merits of Dix and Grosz. Her arguments are inconclusive and frankly, the book is about as entertaining as someone else's bath water.

The only redeeming quality (for which I gave this book two stars) is that Tatar included numerous sketches and paintings (albeit in black and white)by Dix and Grosz, whose works are not especially easy to locate. Some of these illustrations, one of which depicts a butcher selling pieces of dismembered women in his shop, are enough to disturb even the most fortified of minds. The pictures themselves give the reader at least a hint of what Weimar society must have been like; Maria Tatar's rambling text just induces sleep.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Journey into the Minds of Men
Comment: Fascinating book that looks at the art of Germany after World War 1 and discusses the implication of the sexually violent images that increased dramatically at that point in history. This is a sociological look at the connection between the culture of the times and the idiosyncrasies that produced such a mindset. Pat Brown/Director/Investigative Criminal Profiler/The Sexual Homicide Exchange, Inc.