Nostalgia for the Future : Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 War Art/Art War: Controlling the Legacy of Nazi Modernism -- The German Wartime Art Project -- The 1951 Repatriation of the German War Art Collection -- The 1986 Repatriation of the German War Art Collection -- The German War Art Collection in Washington, D.C. -- Modernism and Wehrmacht Patronage -- CHAPTER 2 Eugenic Art: Hitler's Utopian Modernism -- Easel Painting -- On the Mechanical Reproduction of Art in the Third Reich -- The Munich Exhibitions -- Resurgent Völkisch Art -- The Blue Knight -- CHAPTER 3 Nazi Modernism and the Mobilization of Christian Artists -- Christianity and the Origins of National Socialist Ideology -- War, Apocalypse, and Nationalist Christianity -- Mobilization -- National Socialist Neo-Paganism -- Christianity, National Socialism, and Modernity -- Munich and the Mobilization of Christian Artists -- Key Figures: Oskar Martin-Amorbach, Richard Heymann, and Hans Spiegel -- CHAPTER 4 Baldur von Schirach and "Degenerate" Artin the Service of Nazi Culture -- Vienna -- The Nazi Culture War -- Artistic Context -- Alternate Nazi Canons -- CHAPTER 5 Radioactive Artand the Rehabilitation of Nazi Artists -- Canonical Art and the Case of Arno Breker -- Radioactive Art -- Collaboration -- The Cases of Emil Nolde and Christian Schad -- Denazification -- Rehabilitation -- Degenerate Artists -- Bibliography -- I. Interviews -- II. Archives and Museum Depots -- III. Late Weimar and Nazi-Era Exhibition Catalogues -- IV. Quoted Sources -- V. Background Sources -- Figures -- Index.

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