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- Title
The Dialectics of Design and Destruction: The Degenerate Art Exhibition (1937) and the Exhibition internationale du Surréalisme (1938).
- Authors
BUCHLOH, BENJAMIN H. D.
- Abstract
An essay is presented that discusses the 1937 "Degenerate Art" exhibition in Munich, Germany and the 1938 "Exposition internationale du Surréalisme" in Paris, France, curated by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp. Topics include Fascist approaches to exhibition design, the role of the human body in Duchamp's curation of sculpture, and the 1939 exhibition "Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung" at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst museum in Munich, Germany.
- Subjects
FRANCE; DEGENERATE Art Exhibit, Munich, Germany, 1937; SURREALISM; NATIONAL socialism &; art; SURREALIST exhibitions; DUCHAMP, Marcel, 1887-1968; BRETON, Andre, 1896-1966; HUMAN figure in art; HAUS der Kunst Munchen; HISTORY
- Publication
October, 2014, Issue 150, p49
- ISSN
0162-2870
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1162/OCTO_a_00200