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The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany (Cultural Memory in the Present)
The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany - Cultural Memory in the Present Author:Eric Michaud, Janet Lloyd "The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany" presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the "Aryan race," a race pronounced superior because it alone creates c... more »ulture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison dêtre of a regime defined by Hitler as the "dictatorship of genius."« less