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Hitler and the power of aesthetics / Frederic Spotts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Hutchinson, c2001.Description: 488 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0091793947
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Hitler's aim was the Aryan super-state, but it was to be expressed as much in Nazi art as in politics. Culture was not only the end, to which power should aspire, but the means of achieving it. This reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations examines his perverse obsessions and shows how his artistry - expressed in spectacles, festivities, parades, rallies and political dramas, as well as in architecture, painting and music - destroyed any sense of individuality and linked the German people with his own drives. In a wide-ranging argument which covers topics as varied as Wagner's operas and the German Autobahn system, Spotts provides a key to the understanding of the Third Reich which has hiterto been missing in more straightforwardly political and military studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. xi)
  • Sources (p. xv)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xxi)
  • The Reluctant Dictator
  • 1 The Bohemian Aesthete (p. 3)
  • 2 A Philosophy of Culture (p. 16)
  • 3 The Grand Paradox (p. 28)
  • The Artful Leader
  • 4 The Artist as Politician (p. 43)
  • 5 The Politician as Artist (p. 73)
  • The Artist of Destruction
  • 6 The New Germany and the New German (p. 97)
  • 7 Purification by Death (p. 113)
  • The Failed Painter
  • 8 The Struggling Watercolourist (p. 123)
  • 9 Forgers and Collectors (p. 138)
  • The Art Dictator
  • 10 The Modernist Enemy (p. 151)
  • 11 The Failure of National Socialist Realism (p. 169)
  • 12 The Art Collector (p. 187)
  • The Perfect Wagnerite
  • 13 Hitler's Wagner or Wagner's Hitler? (p. 223)
  • 14 'Fuhrer of the Bayreuth Republic' (p. 247)
  • The Music Master
  • 15 The Rape of Euterpe (p. 267)
  • 16 The Music Patron (p. 277)
  • 17 Conductors and Composers (p. 289)
  • The Master Builder
  • 18 Immortality through Architecture (p. 311)
  • 19 Political Architecture (p. 330)
  • 20 Remodelling Germany (p. 351)
  • 21 Aesthetics and Transport (p. 386)
  • After Word (p. 399)
  • Source Notes (p. 402)
  • Books Cited in Text (p. 437)
  • Index (p. 444)

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