Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany

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Author(s): Gregory Maertz
Publisher: Ibidem-Verlag
Year: 2019

Language: English
City: Stuttgart
Tags: Art History

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 War Art/Art War: Controlling the Legacy of Nazi Modernism
The German Wartime Art Project
The 1951 Repatriation of the German War Art Collection
The 1986 Repatriation of the German War Art Collection
The German War Art Collection in Washington, D.C.
Modernism and Wehrmacht Patronage
Chapter 2 Eugenic Art: Hitler’s Utopian Modernism
Easel Painting
On the Mechanical Reproduction of Art in the Third Reich
The Munich Exhibitions
Resurgent Völkisch Art
The Blue Knight
Chapter 3 Nazi Modernism and the Mobilization of Christian Artists
Christianity and the Origins of National Socialist Ideology
War, Apocalypse, and Nationalist Christianity
Mobilization
National Socialist Neo-Paganism
Christianity, National Socialism, and Modernity
Munich and the Mobilization of Christian Artists
Key Figures: Oskar Martin-Amorbach, Richard Heymann, and Hans Spiegel
Chapter 4 Baldur von Schirach and “Degenerate” Art in the Service of Nazi Culture
Vienna
The Nazi Culture War
Artistic Context
Alternate Nazi Canons
Chapter 5 Radioactive Art and the Rehabilitation of Nazi Artists
Canonical Art and the Case of Arno Breker
Radioactive Art
Collaboration
The Cases of Emil Nolde and Christian Schad
Denazification
Rehabilitation
Degenerate Artists
Bibliography
I. Interviews
II. Archives and Museum Depots
III. Late Weimar and Nazi-Era Exhibition Catalogues
IV. Quoted Sources
V. Background Sources
Figures
Copyright