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Degenerate Art. We have been here before

submitted by Crackinjokes to History 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 04:14:43 ago (+9/-0)     (amp.theguardian.com)

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/degenerate-art-attack-modern-art-nazi-germany-review-neue-galerie



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[ - ] PostWallHelena 2 points 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 08:37:42 ago (+2/-0)

Degenrate art

I know it when I see it!

[ - ] TheNoticing 1 point 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 10:45:16 ago (+1/-0)

Stop noticing things!

[ - ] boekanier 1 point 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 04:50:12 ago (+1/-0)

It IS filth, what the left wants to split us in the stomach. Those who don't know any better will think they are looking at 'art'

[ - ] Name 1 point 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 08:17:16 ago (+1/-0)

Their culture is so weak and lacking that the only way they can define their existence is “not a Nazi.” Without Hitler they would be nothing.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 08:35:41 ago (+1/-0)

The concept of degeneracy – the idea that artists could have pathological disorders, that their art could be not just bad but sick, even contagious – was widely debated during the era of Bismarck, most prominently by the Austro-Hungarian physician and critic Max Nordau, whose 1892-93 book Entartung ("Degeneration") warned that any society could be corrupted by decayed ideas of beauty and virtue. "Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists," Nordau argued. His theories on art and illness ripple through the writings of Nazi race ideology, including Mein Kampf – even though, in one of the most brutal ironies of modern art history, Nordau was not just Jewish but a committed Zionist, and he's buried in Tel Aviv

Haha! Great article.

[ - ] happytoes 1 point 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 10:15:45 ago (+1/-0)

An English translation of Nordau's book is available on Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51161/51161-h/51161-h.htm

[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 2.1 yearsMar 26, 2023 11:08:50 ago (+1/-0)

Fascinating character. Read the wikipedia article. He was very pro-german until the Dreyfuss affair. Another case of a “good jew” gone wrong.