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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Pamela Maxine, author.

Series:

Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Arts and society--History.

Arts and society.

Arts, German--20th century.

Arts, German.

National socialism and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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:

Cover

Art of Suppression

Title

Copyright

Dedication

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 after the Cold War

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ISBN:

9780520957961

0520957962

9780520422728

0520422724

OCLC:

939245203