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An edition of Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics (2002)

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics

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"In a remarkable synthesis of key scholarship and historical resources, Frederic Spotts portrays the "National Socialist revolution" as much less a social than a cultural revolution. Spotts maintains that Hitler viewed himself first and foremost as an artist, that his activities were largely directed to the promotion of the arts, and that his driving ambition was to create a supreme culture state, while at the same time using the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends." "Unlike the traditional biographical view that Hitler was an "unperson," who had no life outside politics, Spotts, author of the distinguished Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, shows that Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism. Spotts offers the first analysis of Hitler's own work as a painter as well as of his art collection - one Hitler intended to make the finest in the world.

Spotts's argument is punctuated with evocative photographs and reproductions from Hitler's 1925 sketchbook." "Hitler's vision of the Aryan super-state was, as Spotts points out, to be expressed as much in art as in politics. Culture was not only the end to which power should aspire, but the means of achieving it. This fundamental assessment of Hitler's career and artistic life in the Third Reich boldly shows how the arts were at the center of his life and that he was at the center of the arts.

He dissolved the line between art and politics and - through the notorious spectacles, parades, festivals, films, rallies, Wagner's operas and (late in life) Lehar's operettas, political theatrics, monumental architecture, even the autobahn and the Volkswagen - turned the entre German populace into participants in his National Socialist drama." "A revealing, detailed, and highly conceptual work, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics provides an additional key to an understanding of the Third Reich - in many ways the key to the first lock on the first door. It has, until now, been only noted in the more speculative psychological portraits, biographies, and straightforward histories of the Third Reich."--Jacket.

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Overlook TP
Language
English
Pages
464

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Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
Oct 16, 2018, Harry N. Abrams
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Cover of: Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
2009, Abrams, Inc.
in English
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Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
April 6, 2004, Overlook TP
Paperback in English
Cover of: Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
January 6, 2003, Overlook Hardcover
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
August 7, 2003, Pimlico
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Hitler and the power of aesthetics
2002, Hutchinson
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Library of Congress
DD247.H5 S654 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
464
Dimensions
9 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8817796M
Internet Archive
hitlerpowerofaes0000spot_l9v0
ISBN 10
1585675075
ISBN 13
9781585675074
OCLC/WorldCat
54879672
Library Thing
21983
Goodreads
54345

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