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Degenerate art : the attack on modern art in Nazi Germany, 1937 / edited by Olaf Peters ; preface by Ronald S. Lauder ; foreword by ReneÌe Price ; with contributions by Bernhard Fulda, Ruth Heftrig, Mario-Andreas von LuÌttichau, Karsten MuÌller, Olaf Peters, Jonathan Petropoulos, Ernst Ploil, Ines Schlenker, Aya Soika, Karl Stamm.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Munich : Prestel, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9783791353678
  • 3791353675
Other title:
  • Attack on modern art in Nazi Germany, 1937
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.4309043 23
LOC classification:
  • N6868.5.N37 D44 2014
Other classification:
  • 803500*by*ob
  • LK 10350
Contents:
From Nordau to Hitler : "degeneration" and anti-modernism between the fin-de-sieÌcle and the National Socialist takeover of power / Olaf Peters -- "Crazy at any price" : the pathologizing of modernism in the run-up to the "Entartete Kunst" exhibition in Munich in 1937 / Mario-Andreas von LuÌttichau -- Plates I -- Defining National Socialist art : the first "Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung" in 1937 / Ines Schlenker -- Genesis, conception, and consequences : The "Entartete Kunst" exhibition in Munich in 1937 / Olaf Peters -- The "Entartete Kunst" exhibitions in Austria / Ernst Ploil -- Plates II -- "Violent vomiting over me" : Ernst Barlach and National Socialist cultural policy / Karsten MuÌller -- Emil Nolde and the National Socialist dictatorship / Bernhard Fulda and Aya Soika -- "Degenerate art" on the screen / Karl Stamm -- Plates III -- Narrowed modernism : on the rehabilitation of "degenerate art" in postwar Germany / Ruth Heftrig -- From Lucerne to Washington, DC : "degenerate art" and the question of restitution / Jonathan Petropoulos -- Checklist.
Summary: This book accompanies the first major museum exhibition devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. During the Nazi regime in Germany, "degenerate art" was the official term for much of the most important modern art of the day. "Degenerate art" was defined by the Nazi regime as artwork that was not in line with the National Socialists' ideas of beauty. Their condemnation extended to works in nearly every major art movement: Expressionism, Dada, New Objectivity, Surrealism, Cubism, and Fauvism. Banned artists included Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, and Oskar Kokoschka. Richly illustrated, Degenerate Art elucidates the historical and intellectual context of the notorious exhibition in Munich in 1937, which spurred the attack on modern art. The book contains reflections on the genesis and evolution of the term "degenerate art" and details of the National Socialist policy on art. Art works from the exhibition Degenerate Art are compared to works of art from The Great German Art Exhibition, which was held at the same time and displayed the works of officially approved artists. The book also presents the after-effects of the attack on modernism that are felt even today.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks N6868.5 .N37 D44 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001339877

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Neue Galerie New York, March 13-June 30, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-316) and index.

From Nordau to Hitler : "degeneration" and anti-modernism between the fin-de-sieÌcle and the National Socialist takeover of power / Olaf Peters -- "Crazy at any price" : the pathologizing of modernism in the run-up to the "Entartete Kunst" exhibition in Munich in 1937 / Mario-Andreas von LuÌttichau -- Plates I -- Defining National Socialist art : the first "Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung" in 1937 / Ines Schlenker -- Genesis, conception, and consequences : The "Entartete Kunst" exhibition in Munich in 1937 / Olaf Peters -- The "Entartete Kunst" exhibitions in Austria / Ernst Ploil -- Plates II -- "Violent vomiting over me" : Ernst Barlach and National Socialist cultural policy / Karsten MuÌller -- Emil Nolde and the National Socialist dictatorship / Bernhard Fulda and Aya Soika -- "Degenerate art" on the screen / Karl Stamm -- Plates III -- Narrowed modernism : on the rehabilitation of "degenerate art" in postwar Germany / Ruth Heftrig -- From Lucerne to Washington, DC : "degenerate art" and the question of restitution / Jonathan Petropoulos -- Checklist.

This book accompanies the first major museum exhibition devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. During the Nazi regime in Germany, "degenerate art" was the official term for much of the most important modern art of the day. "Degenerate art" was defined by the Nazi regime as artwork that was not in line with the National Socialists' ideas of beauty. Their condemnation extended to works in nearly every major art movement: Expressionism, Dada, New Objectivity, Surrealism, Cubism, and Fauvism. Banned artists included Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, and Oskar Kokoschka. Richly illustrated, Degenerate Art elucidates the historical and intellectual context of the notorious exhibition in Munich in 1937, which spurred the attack on modern art. The book contains reflections on the genesis and evolution of the term "degenerate art" and details of the National Socialist policy on art. Art works from the exhibition Degenerate Art are compared to works of art from The Great German Art Exhibition, which was held at the same time and displayed the works of officially approved artists. The book also presents the after-effects of the attack on modernism that are felt even today.

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