| Description |
xxii, 456 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Reluctant Dictator. 1. The Bohemian Aesthete. 2. A Philosophy of Culture. 3. The Grand Paradox -- The Artful Leader. 4. The Artist as Politician. 5. The Politician as Artist -- The Artist of Destruction. 6. The New Germany and the New German. 7. Purification by Death -- The Failed Painter. 8. The Struggling Watercolourist. 9. Forgers and Collectors -- The Art Dictator. 10. The Modernist Enemy. 11. The Failure of National Socialist Realism. 12. The Art Collector -- The Perfect Wagnerite. 13. Hitler's Wagner or Wagner's Hitler? 14. 'Fuhrer of the Bayreuth Republic' -- The Music Master. 15. The Rape of Euterpe. 16. The Music Patron. 17. Conductors and Composers -- The Master Builder. 18. Immortality through Architecture. 19. Political Architecture. 20. Remodelling Germany. 21. Aesthetics and Transport |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages [437]-443) and index |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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National socialism and art.
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Art and state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, German -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, Austrian -- 20th century.
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Germany -- Cultural policy.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2002066302 |
| ISBN |
1585673455 hardback alkaline paper |
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