| Description |
1 online resource (x, 233 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Art and culture in the Weimar Republic: the economic, institutional, and political context -- Nazi coordination of the arts and the creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture, 1933 -- Evolution of the Chamber System -- The varieties of patronage, 1933-1939 -- Germanizing the arts -- Mobilizing artists for war |
| Summary |
From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Subdivided into separate chambers for music, theater, the visual arts, literature, film, radio, and the press, this organization encompassed several hundred thousand professionals and influenced the activities of millions of amateur artists and musicians as well. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. One of the most persistent generalizations to emerge from research on Nazi Germany is the notion of a German artistic and cultural establishment at the mercy of a totalitarian regime determined to mobilize the arts for its own ideological purposes. Steinweis argues that this generalization obscures a more complex reality. It overlooks continuities in the agenda of the German cultural establishment from the Weimar Republic through the Nazi period and presupposes a clearer distinction than actually existed between officialdom and the cultural elite, thereby overestimating the degree to which policy affecting artists originated outside the artistic world. Steinweis describes the political, professional, and economic environment in which German artists were compelled to function and explains the structure of decision making, showing in whose interest cultural policies were formulated. He discusses such issues as work creation, social insurance, minimum wage statutes, and certification guidelines, all of which were matters of high priority to the art professions before 1933 as well as after the Nazi seizure of power. By elucidating the economic and professional context of cultural life, Steinweis also contributes to an understanding of the response of German artists to cultural Gleichschaltung, or "coordination," and helps to explain the widespread acquiescence of German artists to artistic censorship and racial and political "purification." |
| Notes |
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index |
| Credits |
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Notes |
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| SUBJECT |
Reichskulturkammer gnd |
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Arts, German.
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National socialism and art.
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Arts -- Economic aspects -- Germany
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- Performance.
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Arts -- Economic aspects
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Arts, German
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National socialism and art
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Kulturpolitik
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Drittes Reich
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Künstler
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Kunstbeleid.
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Nationaal-socialisme.
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Arts allemands.
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National-socialisme et art.
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Politique culturelle -- Allemagne -- 1900-1945.
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Germany
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585027560 |
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9780585027562 |
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080786479X |
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9780807864791 |
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0807846074 |
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9780807846070 |
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