Art and Power - Europe under the diktators 1930-45
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This survey provides an in-depth study of the relationship of art and power in what has been called the "Europe of the Dictators", between 1930 and 1945 - published as the catalogue for a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery which opened in late 1995. In Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR and Mussolini's Italy, art was used to reinforce the strength of the political rulers, to shape and influence, to celebrate and demonstrate the seductive nature of power. But despite the ambitious architectural projects and public monuments, the grand portraits and gigantic sculptures, artistic freedom was restricted under these regimes. Art movements that had flourished pre-1930 were suppressed, and efforts were channelled into new, populist forms that expressed the ideals of the state. With over 450 illustrated examples, ranging from painting and sculpture to large-scale architecture, from cinema and photography to literature, this volume examines in essays, by some of today's leading art historians, the often uneasy relationship between art and power. Including biographies of all the artists and architects, an illustrated chronology, and extracts from contemporary reviews and journals, this text should be a valuable resource for students and art historians, and an important study for anyone interested in the history of the period. An afterword is included by Neal ascherson.
Acknowledgments 7
Preface by Klaus Gallwitz 9
Foreword by Eric Hobsbawm 11
Selectors' Introduction by Dawn Ades and Tim Benton and David Elliott and Iain Boyd Whyte 16
Chronology by Marko Daniel 18
The Battle for Art by David Elliott 31
Speaking without Adjectives: Architecture in the Service of Totalitarianism by Tim Benton 36
Berlin, 1 May 1936 by Iain Boyd Whyte 43
Art as Monument by Dawn Ades 50
Paris 1937: Art and the Power of Nations by Dawn Ades 58
Spain: Culture at War by Marko Daniel 63
The German Pavilion by Karen Fiss 108
Alberto Sanchez: An Artist at the Crossroads by Josefina Alix Trueba 111
Notes of a Tourist at the Exhibition, 1937 by Amedee Ozenfant 115
Rome Reclaims its Empire: Architecture by Tim Benton 120
All Roads Lead to Rome: Painting and Sculpture by Simonetta Fraquelli 130
Black Shirts, White Telephones: Cinema by Lutz Becker 137
'Against Dreary Conformism': Giuseppe Bottai and Culture During the Fascist Period by Ester Coen 178
In Defence of Modern Art, 1938 by Giuseppe Bottai 181
Notes on some German Italophils, 1940-1945 by Kurt Craemer 182
The Great Illusion: Architecture by Igor A. Kazus 189
The End of the Avant-Garde: Painting and Sculpture by David Elliott 195
Optimistic Realism: Cinema by Lutz Becker 199
When Stalin Meets Haussmann: the Moscow Plan of 1935 by Jean Louis Coben
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780500237199
- Titel
- Art and power : Europe under the dictators 1930-45
- Författare
- Ades, Dawn
- Förlag
- London : Thames & Hudson
- Språk
- English
