The exposed genitalia in Baselitz's uncompromising paintings and graphics of this period are essentially attempts to bring into the open, to make public, the effects of official 'cover-ups'and repressed
emotions in post-Holocaust West Germany. Three years earlier Gunter Grass's novel The Tin Drum had exploited images of retarded childhood to allegorize the darker aspects of the German psyche.
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