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Art As Politics in the Third Reich (Paperback, New edition)
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Art As Politics in the Third Reich (Paperback, New edition)
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The political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural
elite as well. This work explores the elite's cultural aspirations
by examining both the formulation of a national aesthetic policy
and the content of the private art collections held by high-ranking
Nazis. The author demonstrates that these leaders manipulated
public policy and their own collecting patterns to articulate
fundamental tenets of Nazi ideology. The work begins by tracing the
evolution of aesthetic policy from the purges of museum staff and
academics labelled as ""undesirable"" in 1933 to the confiscation
of Jewish-owned artworks in the late 1930s and the organized
plundering of art from occupied areas during the war. The author
then reconstructs the collections of prominent Nazi officials -
including Hitler, Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, and Ribbentrop
- and argues that their private holdings defined their
relationships to one another within the Nazi hierachy in addition
to reflecting their racist and nationalist beliefs. According to
the author, art collecting offered the political elite a way to
achieve legitimacy and social standing, thereby providing a common
cultural language for the leaders of the Third Reich.
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