RARE ~ OUT OF PRINT !!!

Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany

BARRON, STEPHANIE; GUENTHER, PETER; HUENEKE, ANDRE

New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1991. Very good larger paperbound 750 illustrations, including 164 plates in full colour, chronology, bibliography,423 pages with  index. " No sooner had the Nazis seized control of Germany in 1933 than they launched their relentless attacks on the avant-garde and their desecration of modernist art. By the fall of 1937 they had stripped 16,000 avant-garde works from the nation"s museums and sent 650 to Munich for a massive exhibition, Entartete Kunst (degenerate art, as they called this work). Among the artists thus castigated were towering figures of the art world: Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, and founders of German Expressionism: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Provocative installation techniques were employed, some even reminiscent of the famous avant-garde shows of the past... Stephanie Barron, curator of the twentieth century art at the museum, has assembled more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show. Generously illustrated with many photos never before published this volume also contains biographical information on each artist pertinent to the Nazi persecution of the avant- garde."