Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts Volume 50

by Pamela M. Potter

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282345
• ISBN13: 9780520282346
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"