The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany (Hardcover, First)

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'etre 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.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date:	March 2004
First published:	April 2004
Authors:	Eric Michaud
Translators:	Janet Lloyd
Dimensions:	210 x 165 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	368
Edition:	First
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-4326-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Fascism & Nazism
LSN:	0-8047-4326-6
Barcode:	9780804743266

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