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- Title
Banishing the Past: The German Avant-Garde and Nazi Art.
- Authors
Lang, Gladys Engel; Lang, Kurt
- Abstract
How do radical changes in cultural policy affect artistic reputations? Nazi policy to control memory -- through the stigmatization of artists and the confiscation of their art -- was less than fully successful for two main reasons: (1) Refugees and the German need for foreign exchange carried many pieces into the international market, where they escaped destruction from bombing raids; and (2) in post-war Germany a considerable effort was made not only to connect with a "broken" tradition but also to locate victims and to salvage as much of their work and reputations as possible. Allied efforts to banish Nazi-approved art from the collective memory have been far more successful Many works that survive still rest in repositories not open to the public and, while work by a few Nazi favorites are still in demand, public commemoration remains politically controversial Whether the reputation of an artist survives such sharp breaks in the political culture depends not only on the physical preservation of prior work but also on decisions as to who merits a place in the archives accessible to posterity.
- Subjects
CULTURAL policy; ARTS; REPUTATION; STIGMATIZATION in art; CONFISCATIONS; ARTISTS; INTERNATIONAL markets
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1996, Vol 19, Issue 3, p323
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02393275