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100 1 $aSpotts, Frederic.
245 10 $aHitler and the power of aesthetics /$cFrederic Spotts.
260 $aWoodstock :$bOverlook Press,$c2004, ©2002.
300 $axxii, 456 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London : Hutchinson, ©2002.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 437-443) and index.
520 1 $a"A startling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts' Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides a key to fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts, author of the distinguished Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, convincingly demonstrates that unlike the traditional biographical view that Hitler was an "unperson," who had no life outside of politics, Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism -- and that he used the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends. Hitler's vision of the Aryan superstate was 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. Spotts' fundamental reassessment both of Hitler's career and of artistic life in the Third Reich boldly shows how the arts were at the center of Hitler's life and that he was at the center of the arts. Hitler, he argues, dissolved the line between art and politics and -- through the notorious spectacles, parades, festivals, films, rallies, Wagner operas and (late in life) Lehar operettas, political theatrics, monumental architecture, even the autobahn and the Volkswagen -- turned the entire German nation into participants in his National Socialist drama. Punctuated with evocative photographs and reproductions from Hitler's 1925 sketchbook. Book jacket."--Jacket.
505 0 $aThe Reluctant Dictator -- The Bohemian Aesthete -- A Philosophy of Culture -- The Grand Paradox -- The Artful Leader -- The Artist as Politician -- The Politician as Artist -- The Artist of Destruction -- The New Germany and the New German -- Purification by Death -- The Failed Painter -- The Struggling Watercolourist -- Forgers and Collectors -- The Art Dictator -- The Modernist Enemy -- The Failure of National Socialist Realism -- The Art Collector -- The Perfect Wagnerite -- Hitler's Wagner or Wagner's Hitler? -- 'Fuhrer of the Bayreuth Republic' -- The Music Master -- The Rape of Euterpe -- The Music Patron -- Conductors and Composers -- The Master Builder -- Immortality through Architecture -- Political Architecture -- Remodelling Germany -- Aesthetics and Transport.
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650 6 $aEsthétique allemande$y20e siècle.
650 6 $aEsthétique autrichienne$y20e siècle.
651 6 $aAllemagne$xPolitique culturelle.
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