423, [1] pages. Oversized book, measuring 12 inches by 9-1/2 inches. Small

423, [1] pages. Oversized book, measuring 12 inches by 9-1/2 inches. Small dings/damage at bottom edge of front cover and spine. Contributors to this book include Peter Guenther, Andreas Huneke, Annegret Janda, Mario-Andreas von Luttichau, Michael Meyer, William Moritz, George L. Mosse, and Chrisoph Zuschlag. Includes Foreword, Chronology, Register of Frequently Cited Names and Organizations, Exhibition Ephemera, Entartete Kunst: The Literature, Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgments, List of Lenders, and Index. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Degenerative Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, which was organized by the Los Angels County Museum of Art. The Exhibition itinerary was the Los Angeles County Museum of Art February 17-May 12, 1991 and The Art Institute of Chicago June 22-September 8, 1991. This book examines the events surrounding the condemnation of modern art by the National Socialists in the 1930's. This book documents one of the most appalling moments in our century's cultural history, but it is also a reminder that art and creativity will survive censorship and oppression. This is a key work in the field of what was termed 'Degenerate Art' ('Entartete Kunst') by the Nazis. Particularly valuable for its reconstruction of the 'Entartete Kunst' Exhibition held in Munich in 1937 on the basis of existing photographs and documentation, and, to a certain extent, the touring of versions of this show to other major cities. The book also includes a detailed description of the exhibit, explanations of how the exhibit design influenced the viewers, and short biographies of every artist included, as well as examples of their work, many of which were destroyed. Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art. Degenerate Art also was the title of an exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of 650 modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria. While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience. Similar restrictions were placed upon music, which was expected to be tonal and free of any jazz influences; disapproved music was termed degenerate music. Films and plays were also censored. In 1937 the National Socialists staged the most virulent attack ever mounted against modern art with the opening on July 19 in Munich of the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate art) exhibition, in which were brought together more than 650 important paintings, sculptures, prints, and books that had until a few weeks earlier been in the possession of thirty-two German public museum collections. The works were assembled for the purpose of clarifying for the German public by defamation and derision exactly what type of modern art was unacceptable to the Reich, and thus "un-German." During the four months Entartete Kunst was on view in Munich it attracted more than two million visitors, over the next three years it traveled throughout Germany and Austria and was seen by nearly one million more On most days twenty thousand visitors passed through the exhibition, which...

Text is LIKE NEW. Very Clean. No writing or tears to text. Book and Dust Jacket have minor wear.

Text is LIKE NEW. Very Clean. No writing or tears to text. Book and Dust Jacket have minor wear.