Title: The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany
Author: Michaud, Eric
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 8.64h x 6.44w x 1.00d
Product Weight: 1.55 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9780804743266

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'?tre 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.

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