Art of the Third Reich

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Nearly fifty years after the collapse of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, the officially sanctioned art of his National Socialist regime remains largely unknown. Since 1945, few people have seen these controversial works: many were destroyed in World War Two bombings; most of what survived is hidden away, accessible only to scholars. In Art of the Third Reich, Peter Adam--who grew up in Berlin in the Hitler era--has gone back to Germany after years in England as a BBC documentary-film producer and made an extensive ...
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Nearly fifty years after the collapse of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, the officially sanctioned art of his National Socialist regime remains largely unknown. Since 1945, few people have seen these controversial works: many were destroyed in World War Two bombings; most of what survived is hidden away, accessible only to scholars. In Art of the Third Reich, Peter Adam--who grew up in Berlin in the Hitler era--has gone back to Germany after years in England as a BBC documentary-film producer and made an extensive study of the art of the National Socialists. Adam explores its complex ramifications, which led to a traditional German style linked to nature, family, and the homeland and to the suppression of modern art--associated by the Reich with large cities, internationalism, and decadence. Painting, sculpture, architecture, film, and all the other art disciplines were compelled to serve as vehicles for the transmission of National Socialist ideology, intended to forge the people's collective mind in the Nazi mold. Hitler's belief that architecture was the most forceful manifestation of absolute political power lay at the heart of his grandiose schemes for redesigning Munich, Berlin, Nuremberg, and more than a score of other German cities. Hitler also virtually created a new art--the art of manipulating mass emotions, which he skillfully used at Nazi Party rallies and in mass sports events, such as the notorious Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. How this art form was enacted against a backdrop of colossal architecture makes a fascinating and important leitmotif in this study. The research for this engrossing book took Adam to hidden repositories in both the United States and Germany. From often tattered books and magazines of the period, he has gleaned many of the 321 illustrations covering the broad spectrum of National Socialist art, which scholars are now beginning to recognize as an essential source of information about the perplexing Third Reich.

Nearly 50 years after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich, the officially sanctioned art of his National Socialist regime remains largely unknown. Many were destroyed or stored away in inaccessible locations. Now a documentary film producer offers a thoroughly researched, engrossing examination of the art of National Socialist Germany. 324 illustrations, 33 in full color.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
A major propaganda tool in spreading Nazi ideology, the official art of Hitler's regime remains virtually hidden from the German public today. Featuring 321 illustrations (including 33 plates in color), this significant survey is a chilling reminder of how art can be used to promote philistine attitudes and to camouflage evil. Adam, a BBC-TV producer raised in Nazi Berlin and of Jewish ancestry, produced an award-winning documentary film on which this book is based. He thoughtfully reviews Nazi artworks--vulgar kitsch at best: statues of men and women conforming to the fantasy of a pure Aryan race, portraits of the Fuhrer, scenes of farm families, messianic dances, recruitment posters and grandiose architectural schemes for redesigning Berlin, Munich and Nuremberg, colossal plans that embody the vapid dreams of a megalomaniac. (June)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780810919129
  • Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/1/1992
  • Pages: 332
  • Product dimensions: 7.85 (w) x 10.71 (h) x 1.02 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 7
Ch. 1 The Nordic Myth: National Socialist Ideology 22
Ch. 2 The Ringmasters 40
Ch. 3 The Practice of National Socialist Ideology 48
Ch. 4 The Turning Point 59
Ch. 5 The Art of Seduction 71
Ch. 6 The "Great German Art Exhibitions" 92
Ch. 7 The Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" 121
Ch. 8 The Visualization of National Socialist Ideology 129
Ch. 9 Sculpture 175
Ch. 10 Hitler and the Architects 206
Ch. 11 Hitler's Building Sites 229
Ch. 12 The Vernacular Style 276
Ch. 13 The False Dawn of a New Art 302
Appendixes 306
Chronology 306
Abbreviations 308
Notes 309
Bibliography 315
Acknowledgments 321
Index 322
Photograph Credits 332
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