Cult of Art in Nazi Germany

Zusatztext "Closely argued and intellectually dazzling, this study is essential reading, not only for historians of twentieth-century art, but for anyone interested in the visual culture of modernity." Informationen zum Autor Eric Michaud is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Klappentext The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the "Aryan race," a race pronounced superior because it alone creates culture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison d'être of a regime defined by Hitler as the "dictatorship of genius." Michaud shows the important link between the religious nature of Nazi art and the political movement, revealing that in Nazi Germany art was considered to be less a witness of history than a force capable of producing future, the actor capable of accelerating the coming of a reality immanent to art itself. Zusammenfassung The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded.

Product details

• Authors: Michaud Eric, Michaud, Eric Michaud, Eric (Professor Michaud, Eric/ Lloyd Michaud
• Assisted by: Janet Lloyd (Translation), Thomas Da Lloyd (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2004
• EAN: 9780804743266
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4326-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Geschichte, Europa, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher, ART / History / General, DRAMA / European / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Art & Art Instruction