8A: "Beauty without Sensuality": Nazi Aesthetics
- Michaud, “Exhibiting the Genius,” 74 – 122.
- Key Themes
- Kulturkampf (Germans facing the necessity for their own culture, manifests in anti-Semitism);
- anti-Semitism = fear of immigrant / refugee (modern day corollary?);
- “Awakening into the myth”;
- Nazi Aesthetics (utopian, exclusionary, permanent).
- Key Themes
- George L. Mosse, "Beauty without Sensuality. The Exhibition Entartete Kunst" in “Degenerate Art”. The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, ed. Stephanie Barron (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art & New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991), 25 -31.
