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Nostalgia for the future : modernism and heterogeneity in the visual arts of Nazi Germany /

From the early years of the Weimar Republic until the collapse of Hitler's regime, demonizing modernist art as a symptom of the corruption of German culture was a standard trope in National Socialist propaganda. But how consistent and thorough was Nazi censorship of modernist artists' Maer...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maertz, Gregory, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stuttgart : Ibidem, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER 1 War Art/Art War: Controlling the Legacy of Nazi Modernism; The German Wartime Art Project; The 1951 Repatriation of the German War Art Collection; The 1986 Repatriation of the German War Art Collection; The German War Art Collection in Washington, D.C.; Modernism and Wehrmacht Patronage; CHAPTER 2 Eugenic Art: Hitler's Utopian Modernism; Easel Painting; On the Mechanical Reproduction of Art in the Third Reich; The Munich Exhibitions; Resurgent Völkisch Art; The Blue Knight; CHAPTER 3 Nazi Modernism and the Mobilization of Christian Artists.
  • Christianity and the Origins of National Socialist IdeologyWar, Apocalypse, and Nationalist Christianity; Mobilization; National Socialist Neo-Paganism; Christianity, National Socialism, and Modernity; Munich and the Mobilization of Christian Artists; Key Figures: Oskar Martin-Amorbach, Richard Heymann, and Hans Spiegel; CHAPTER 4 Baldur von Schirach and "Degenerate" Artin the Service of Nazi Culture; Vienna; The Nazi Culture War; Artistic Context; Alternate Nazi Canons; CHAPTER 5 Radioactive Artand the Rehabilitation of Nazi Artists; Canonical Art and the Case of Arno Breker; Radioactive Art.
  • CollaborationThe Cases of Emil Nolde and Christian Schad; Denazification; Rehabilitation; Degenerate Artists; Bibliography; I. Interviews; II. Archives and Museum Depots; III. Late Weimar and Nazi-Era Exhibition Catalogues; IV. Quoted Sources; V. Background Sources; Figures; Index.