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Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts Volume 50

Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts Volume 50

Potter, Pamela M.

Hardcover

Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, Book 50

European ArtGeneral European HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0520282345
ISBN13: 9780520282346
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 28 2016
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been 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. Potter maintains that although the persecution of Jewish artists and other enemies of the state was a high priority for the Third Reich, removing them from German cultural life did not eradicate their artistic legacies. Art of Suppression examines the cultural histories of Nazi Germany to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life during the Third Reich.

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