"Hitler's Taste in Art" (recent article):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR20080327033
75.html?hpid=topnews
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:11:22 -0400> Subject: Fear
of Avant-gardism in Nazi Germany & USSR> To: [email protected]> >
So what was it in the advant-gard art of the time that was feared? > > It is
interesting to note that the Nazi "Degenerate Art" exhibit is claimed > to be
the first blockbuster exhibition. Would it not have been better to > destroy
or hide this art from public view to minimize its possible "infectious" >
spread? > > BTW: many of these artists and works are my influences.> > Luis
Fontanills> Architect Miami-Dade, Florida> > >
_http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artDegen.htm_ >
(http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artDegen.htm) > > Degenerate Art> Exerpt:
> "In 1937, Nazi officials purged German museums of works the Party considered
> to be degenerate. From the thousands of works removed, 650 were chosen for a
> special exhibit of Entartete Kunst. >
(javascript:newWindow('../defn/entartet.htm','pronunciation')) The exhibit
opened in Munich and then traveled to > eleven other cities in Germany and
Austria. In each installation, the works were > poorly hung and surrounded by
graffiti and hand written labels mocking the > artists and their creations.
Over three million visitors attended making it the > first "blockbuster"
exhibition.">
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_> __> > _http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/067-101e.htm_>
(http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/067-101e.htm)> > Censorship in the Soviet Union
and its Cultural and Professional Results for> Arts and Art Libraries> Olga
Sinitsyna> Arts and Children's Literature Department,> M. I. Rudomino All
Russia State Library for Foreign Literature> Moscow, Russia> > > > >
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