The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany - Couverture souple

Michaud, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804743274 ISBN 13 : 9780804743273

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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'être 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eric Michaud is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804743274
• ISBN 13: 9780804743273
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible