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- Title
The Invisible Museum: Unearthing the Lost Modernist Art of the Third Reich.
- Authors
Maertz, Gregory
- Abstract
This article discusses the contents of the U.S. Army's collection of 9,250 Nazi-era works of art and 50,000 related documents that controvert two of the most enduring myths associated with Nazi Germany and its postwar occupation. The first myth is the assertion that American policy concerning German cultural properties did not include art looting. The second myth is the complete ideological incompatibility of the National Socialist aesthetic with Modernist painting. According to the author, scholarship on U.S. handling of German cultural property focused solely on restitution rather than on investigating the art looting campaign that targeted contemporary German art in the American zone of occupation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PILLAGE; GERMAN art; GERMAN painting; NAZI Germany, 1933-1945; HISTORY of the United States Army -- World War, 1939-1945; NATIONAL socialism &; art; NATIONAL socialism &; culture; CULTURAL property; FOREIGN relations of the United States
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2008.0023