The cult of art in Nazi Germany
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The cult of art in Nazi Germany
（Cultural memory in the present）
Stanford University Press, 2004
- : cloth, alk. paper
- : pbk.
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Un art de l'éternité : l'image et le temps du national-socialisme
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Art de l'éternité
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Originally published: Paris : Gallimard, c1996
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Positions iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. Artist and Dictator 000 @toc3:Authority Founded on Art The Art of Life @toc2:2. The Artist-Fuhrer: A Savior 000 @toc3:A Government of Artists Suggestion and Incorporation Propaganda and anticipation Wagnerian Rehearsals November 9: The Erlebnis in Painting @toc2:3. Exhibiting the Genius 000 @toc3:The Visibility of the Aryan Genius: A National Christianity Awakening into the Myth Producing the Genius The Processions The Temple @toc2:4. Reproducing the Genius 000 @toc3:Schultze-Naumberg and the Race's Self-Reproduction Engendering Through Images Walter Darre: Breeding According to Type Prodigies and Monsters Accelerators Gottfried Benn and the Endogenous image The Images Underlying Words: Purification @toc2:5. Images of Nazi Time: Accelerations and Immobilizations 000 @toc3:Images and Anticipation Accelerations Artists, Workers, and Soldiers: Total Mobilization A Pure Present @toc4:Notes 000 Glossary of Nazi Terms 000 Bibliography 000 Index of Names 000 Photo sections follow pages 00, 000, and 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: National socialism and art, Art, German 20th century, Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Influence
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