The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany

by Eric Michaud

Book Overview

The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the "Aryan race," a race pronounced superior because it alone creates culture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison d' tre of a regime defined by Hitler as the "dictatorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804743274
• ISBN13: 9780804743273
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.2"