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Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts
Pamela M. Potter
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Hardback. Investigates how historians since 1945 wrote about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts were colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 438 pages, 22 b/w. BIC Classification: 1D; AC; AVC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Potter maintains that although the persecution of ... Read more
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Potter maintains that although the persecution of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282346
SKU
V9780520282346
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About Pamela M. Potter
Pamela M. Potter is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich, and coeditor of Music and German National Identity.
Reviews for Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts
[Potter's] book unquestionably provides a ground-breaking historiographic foundation for understanding the mechanisms that stood behind the descriptions and analyses of the Third Reich and the cultural and artistic life of the Nazi state...She raises significant questions related to myths about the unrestricted power of authoritarian and dictatorial regimes in all matters related to culture. And, most important, she hints at ... Read more