"Art, Culture and Media Under the Third Reich" explores the way in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of "Kultur" and civilization. Rather than focusing strictly on the role of the arts in state-supported propaganda as other studies do, this volume reveals how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually dehumanize Jews and other groups, sowing the psychological seeds for the Holocaust to come. Topics covered by the essays range from the design of the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds to Nazi experiments with radio. Contributors address nearly every facet of the art and mass media under the Third Reich - efforts to define degenerate music; the promotion of race hatred and warfare through film, architecture and public assemblies; visual iconography and style; views of the racially ideal garden and landscape; portrayal and reception of art and culture abroad; the treatment of exiled artists; and issues of territory, conquest and cult. Anyone studying the history of Nazi Germany or the role of the arts in nationalist projects should benefit from this book.

About the Author
Richard A. Etlin is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of five books, most recently In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters and Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.


Book Information
ISBN 9780226220871
Author Richard A. Etlin
Format Paperback
Page Count 406
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Weight(grams) 595g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 2mm