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Article: Minority report. ('Degenerate Art' exhibition shown in Los Angeles, California; Washington, D.C.; and Berlin, Germany)
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- The Nation
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- February 17, 1992
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Describing a riot of vicious Oxford upper-class "hearties" against weedy "aesthetes" in his Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh depicted the mob as it "tore up Mr. Partridge's sheets, and threw the Matisse into his water jug; Mr. Sanders had nothing to break except his windows, but they found the manuscript at which he had been working for the Newdigate Prize Poem, and had great fun with that."
The image came back to me after visiting an exhibition titled "Degenerate Art," which detailed the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany and which made its way, via Los Angeles and Washington, around the country before moving on to Berlin. Here were paintings and sculptures ...
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