Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics

by Spotts, Frederic

• ISBN13: 9781590201787
• ISBN10: 1590201787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-27
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Filled with evocative photographs and reproductions from Hitler's 1925 sketchbook, Spotts's study of the Fuhrer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is . . . elegantly composed and richly documented ("The New Yorker"). Photographs throughout.

Author Biography

Frederic Spotts has written four other books on European political and cultural affairs. His study of Bayreuth is acknowledged as the standard work on the subject. Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics was written while Spotts was a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Affairs at Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Sources	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
The Reluctant Dictator
The Bohemian Aesthete	p. 3
A Philosophy of Culture	p. 16
The Grand Paradox	p. 28
The Artful Leader
The Artist as Politician	p. 43
The Politician as Artist	p. 73
The Artist of Destruction
The New Germany and the New German	p. 97
Purification by Death	p. 113
The Failed Painter
The Struggling Watercolourist	p. 123
Forgers and Collectors	p. 138
The Art Dictator
The Modernist Enemy	p. 151
The Failure of National Socialist Realism	p. 169
The Art Collector	p. 187
The Perfect Wagnerite
Hitler's Wagner or Wagner's Hitler?	p. 223
æFührer of the Bayreuth Republic'	p. 227
The Music Master
The Rape of Euterpe	p. 267
The Music Patron	p. 277
Conductors and Composers	p. 289
The Master Builder
Immortality through Architecture	p. 311
Political Architecture	p. 330
Remodelling Germany	p. 351
Aesthetics and Transport	p. 386
Afterword	p. 399
Source Notes	p. 402
Books Cited In Text	p. 437
Index	p. 444
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