{"product_id":"art-of-suppression-confronting-the-nazi-past-in-histories-of-the-visual-and-performing-arts-volume-50-hardcover","title":"Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts Volume 50 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePamela M. Potter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Potter maintains that although the persecution of Jewish artists and other \"enemies of the state\" was a high priority for the Third Reich, removing them from German cultural life did not eradicate their artistic legacies. \u003ci\u003eArt of Suppression\u003c\/i\u003e examines the cultural histories of Nazi Germany to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life during the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePamela M. Potter's excellent critical historiography boldly breaks down the barriers between the disciplines of music history, theater and film history, and art history to show how the historiography on culture during the Nazi period produced blind spots and distortions that are still in fundamental need of correction.--Paul B. Jaskot, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this pathbreaking work, Potter challenges old, well-worn assumptions regarding the creation and consumption of culture. Her book is indispensable for a thorough understanding of culture in Germany, from the Weimar Republic through the Third Reich and the early decades of West and East Germany.\"--Michael H. Kater, author of \u003ci\u003eWeimar: From Enlightenment to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Potter's brilliant and wide-ranging study is both a new interpretation of culture during the Third Reich and an original analysis of the historiography of the postwar period. She shows how the arts in many respects flourished in Nazi Germany, and how this was viewed by most postwar scholars as an 'inconvenient' reality. Authoritative and original, this book is a tour de force.\"--Jonathan Petropoulos, author of \u003ci\u003eArtists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Potter has deftly integrated cultural history and critical historiography into a compelling study that should be read by all students and scholars interested in Nazi Germany and the relationship between art and politics in twentieth-century Europe.\"--Alan E. Steinweis, author of \u003ci\u003eArt, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePamela M. Potter\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of \u003ci\u003eMost German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMusic and German National Identity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424784605286,"sku":"9780520282346","price":128.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/QldOZ3pLNDM4RDdFZS8xQk1JTUpQdz09.webp?v=1775609434","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/art-of-suppression-confronting-the-nazi-past-in-histories-of-the-visual-and-performing-arts-volume-50-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}