THE NAZIFICATION OF ART

ISBN-10: 0-9506783-9-2
Editors: Brandon Taylor and Wilfried van der Will
Τitle: The Nazification of Art
Subtitle: Art, Design, Music, Architecture & Film in the Third Reich
Preface: Brandon Taylor and Wilfried van der Will
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Place of Publication: Winchester, Hampshire
Publisher: The Winchester Press
Year of Publication: 1990
Format: 155x235mm (trimmed)
Pages: viii+280; Notes, 249; Bibliography, 265; Notes on Contributors, 273; Index, 274
Illustrations: 141 black and white plates, pictures, cartoons and sketches
Front Cover Photo: Wounded Soldier by Arno Breker (bronze), 1942
Binding: Paperback in laminated duotone printed wrappers
Weight: 559gr.
Entry No. 2006004
Entry Date: 18^th March 2006

BOOK DESCRIPTION

National Socialism was both a regime of brutal destruction and carefully calculated aesthetic presentation. Germany pre-1933 exemplified the culture of modernity within its large cities, particularly Berlin. ‘Expressionism,’ ‘Dada,’  ‘New Objectivity,’ the ‘Bauhaus,’ films such as   ‘Metropolis,’ the worker culture movement, the struggle for an emancipated feminity, all provided an exciting but to many a disorientating array of cultural creativity. Within the economic and political crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s a cultural backlash occurred. Hitler’s ‘revolution’ in 1933 put an end to the many faceted pluralism of the Weimar Republic. This was now denounced as ‘internationalist,’ ‘cosmopolitan,’ ‘Jewish,’ ‘negroid,’ ‘Bolshevist’. The Nazis’ dictatorial regime set about replacing it with what it believed to be a truly Aryan, Germanic culture. Within this volume scholars from three countries – Britain, Germany and the United States – examine how the National Socialists used a particular cultural heritage, even that of Modernism, to establish their rule in art, design, architecture, music and film. At the same time this book raises the question to what extent Nazi culture prefigured the Post-Modernism of today.


Of particular interest to naturists/nudists is Wilfried van der Will’s contribution on ‘The Body and the Body Politic as Symptom and Metaphor in the Transition of German Culture to National Socialism,’  14-52pp.