From "Degenerate Art" To "Looted Art
Developments and Consequences of National Socialist Cultural Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4071349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olaf Peters (corresponding author) |
| Translators | Steven Lindberg |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-33 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0094033x-3705676 |
| OpenAlex | W2594736459 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This article aims to explain the genesis, the dynamics, and some contradictions of National Socialist policy on art around 1937, the year of the notorious exhibition Degenerate Art. Adolf Hitler and his supporters did not invent the phrase degenerate art, but they adopted it, intensified it, and derived from it their destructive policies on art. "Looted art" was a last step and parallel consequence of developments that included the expulsion of the Jews from German society. Degenerate art and looted art should not be conflated, but they are to some degree interwoven. The article focuses on the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich and the extremes of a state-run campaign against modern art that was part of a broader attempt to impose the National Socialist conception of art by force
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Contemporary art · Degenerate energy levels · Exhibition · German · Nazism · Performance art · State (computer science) · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History
Die SS, Himmler und die Wewelsburg
Handbuch zur "Völkischen Bewegung" 1871-1918
Architektur und Politik in Deutschland 1918–1945
Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus
German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945
"Degenerate Art," The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany
National Socialist Cultural Policy
The Munich Secession, Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich
The Arts in Nazi Germany, Continuity, Conformity, Change
Weimar Culture and the Rise of National Socialism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |