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Article: The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany, by Eric Michaud. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Cultural Memory in the Present series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. 368 pp. $65.00 US (cloth); $24.95 US (paper).
Originally published in French in 1996, this well-researched and nicely illustrated book analyzes the place of art within National Socialist ideology and culture. Nazi elites, of course, attached great significance to art: they glorified "true" German art, combating its so-called "degenerate" opposite with equal ardour, and many of them, including Hitler, had pretensions to the status of artist. The great merit of this study lies in its exposition of just how ...