Title & Author:

Art, culture, and media under the Third Reich / edited by Richard A. Etlin.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.

Description:

xxii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the perverse logic of Nazi thought / Richard A. Etlin -- The target of racial purity: the "degenerate music" exhibition in Düsseldorf, 1938 / Albrecht Dümling -- The National Socialist garden and landscape ideal: Bodenständigkeit (rootedness in the soil) / Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and Gert Gröning -- Bearers of culture, harbingers of destruction: the mythos of the Germans in the east / Robert Jan van Pelt -- The impact of anti-Semitic film propaganda on German audiences: Jew Süss and The wandering Jew (1940) / David Culbert -- The celluloid war: packaging war for sale in Nazi home-front films / Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien -- The drama of illumination: visions of community from Wilhelmine to Nazi Germany / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- From seduction to denial: Arno Breker's engagement with National Socialism / Jonathan Petropoulos -- Heinrich Himmler and the Nuremberg party rally grounds: the interest of the SS in the German building economy / Paul B. Jaskot -- Italian fascists and National Socialists: the dynamics of an uneasy relationship / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- The Bauhaus, 1919-1928: Gropius in exile and the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 1938 / Karen Koehler -- In Hitler's salon: the German pavilion at the 1937 Paris exposition internationale / Karen A. Fiss -- The exiled artists from Nazi Germany and their art / Keith Holz.

Summary:

This work explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilization. Revealing how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually de-humanize Jews, this work shows how the seeds of the Holocaust were sown.

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ISBN:

0226220869 (alk. paper)
9780226220864 (alk. paper)
0226220877
9780226220871

Subject:

Arts, German 20th century.
National socialism and art.
Arts and society Germany.
Expatriate artists.
Artists Germany.
Arts allemands 20e siècle.
Nazisme et art.
Arts et société Allemagne.
Artistes expatriés.
Artistes Allemagne.
Artists.
Arts and society.
Arts, German.
Drittes Reich
Kulturpolitik
Kunst
Kunstpolitik
Medien
Nationalsozialismus
Kultur
Arts and society Germany History 20th century.
Artists Germany 20th century.
Arts, Modern 20th century Germany.
Deutschland.
Germany.
Art Germany 1920-1950.
Arts Germany 1920-1950.
German artists.
National Socialism Germany.
Expatriates Germany 1930-1950.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Etlin, Richard A.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224870
Call No.: NX550.A1 A7 2002
Status: Available