Art of suppression : confronting the Nazi past in histories of the visual and performing arts / Pamela M. Potter.

Av: Språk: Engelska Serie: Weimar and now ; 50.Utgivning: Oakland, California : University of California Press, cop. 2016Utgivning: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]Utgivningstid: ©2016Beskrivning: xvi, 389 pages illustrations 24 cmInnehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • unmediated
Bärartyp:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520282346
  • 0520282345
Ämne: Fler format: Online version:: Art of suppressionDDK-klassifikation:
  • 700.45843086 23
LC-klassifikation:
  • DD256.6 .P68 2016
SAB-klassifikation:
  • I
Innehåll:
Visual and performing arts in Nazi Germany: what is known and what is believed -- The exile experience -- Occupation, Cold War, and the "Zero Hour" -- Totalitarianism, intentionalism, and fascism in Cold War cultural histories -- Modernism and the isolation of Nazi culture -- Cultural histories after the Cold War.
Sammanfattning: "This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Potter investigates how historians since 1945 wrote about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts were colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. She doesn't deny that the persecution of Jewish artists and other "enemies of the state" was a high priority in the Third Reich, but this did not erase their artistic legacies from German cultural life. Art of Suppression examines the cultural histories of the Third Reich to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation of Germany, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life in the Third Reich"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual and performing arts in Nazi Germany: what is known and what is believed -- The exile experience -- Occupation, Cold War, and the "Zero Hour" -- Totalitarianism, intentionalism, and fascism in Cold War cultural histories -- Modernism and the isolation of Nazi culture -- Cultural histories after the Cold War.

"This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Potter investigates how historians since 1945 wrote about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts were colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. She doesn't deny that the persecution of Jewish artists and other "enemies of the state" was a high priority in the Third Reich, but this did not erase their artistic legacies from German cultural life. Art of Suppression examines the cultural histories of the Third Reich to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation of Germany, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life in the Third Reich"--Provided by publisher.

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