Sandwiched In with Dennis Raverty - The Fate of Modern Art in Nazi Germany

Join award-winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty as he explores the Nazi cultural policy which called for the eradication of modern art. Expressive distortions in recent art were said to be the result of Jewish and communist plots to undermine the purity of the German "race," attempts which it labeled "degenerate." An international faculty of distinguished modernists taught at the Bauhaus School of Art and Design in liberal Germany during the 1920s, but Hitler organized modern art seized from museums into his "Degenerate Art Exhibit" of 1936, which ridiculed modernism as an unhygienic symptom of miscegenation that needs to be outlawed. As a result, most of central Europe's best artists, designers and architects moved to the United States. This program is part of the Library's month long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expression.  (Sponsored by the Friends of the Library)

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