Artists under Hitler : collaboration and survival in Nazi Germany /

""What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Petropoulos, Jonathan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	1900 - 1999 National socialism and art. Arts, German > 20th century. Artists > Germany > Social conditions > 20th century. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. HISTORY / Social History. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. Artists > Social conditions. Arts, German. Social history. Germany > Social conditions > 20th century. Germany.

Table of Contents:

"THE SUMMER OF ART" AND BEYOND
The Fight over Modernism
Otto Andreas Schreiber and the Pro-Expressionist Students
The Continuation of Modernism in Nazi Germany
THE PURSUIT OF ACCOMMODATION
Walter Gropius
Paul Hindemith
Gottfried Benn
Ernst Barlach
Emil Nolde
ACCOMMODATION REALIZED
Richard Strauss
Gustaf Griindgens
Leni Riefenstahl
Arno Breker
Albert Speer