Art of Suppression : Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts / Pamela M. Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Pamela M., Author.

Series:

Weimar and now ; 50.

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Arts, German--20th century.

Arts, German.

National socialism and art.

Arts and society--Germany--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. Visual and Performing Arts in Nazi Germany: What Is Known and What Is Believed

2. The Exile Experience

3. Occupation, Cold War, and the Zero Hour

4. Totalitarianism, Intentionalism, and Fascism in Cold War Cultural Histories

5. Modernism and the Isolation of Nazi Culture

6. Cultural Histories aft er the Cold War

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Online version: Potter, Pamela Maxine, author. Art of suppression

ISBN:

0-520-95796-2

978-0-520-95796-1

OCLC:

939245203