About this title: This ground-breaking volume documents the extraordinary Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in 1937 as part of their clearly articulated antimodernist policy. Here, more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show are collected and illustrated in full color. International experts on Germany in the Nazi period have contributed essays on the purposes of the exposition, aspects of the installation, the significance of the campaign against "degenerate art" as an instrument of government policy, and the concept of "degenerate art" in other fields. Generously ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, Los Angeles/NY
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780810936539ISBN:0810936534
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., minor rubbing to dj's back panel. no other flaws. a great copy of the initial edition.; 423pp., 750 illustrations, including 164 color plates.; still the definitive book on this subject in english. major work of scholarship recreating the notorious exhibition in nazi germany designed to eradicate all significance from modern art in germany. contains chapters on music and film as well as ... read more
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