PDF⋙ Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Pamela M. Potter
Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Pamela M. Potter Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Pamela M. Potter PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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 Jewish artists and other “enemies of the state” was a high prior...