Ebook: Nazi exhibition design and modernism
Author: Tymkiw Michael
- Tags: Art -- Exhibition techniques -- Social aspects, Art exhibition audiences -- Germany -- History -- 20th century, National socialism and art, Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century, ART -- Art & Politics, ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany, ART / Performance, ART / Reference, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Art exhibition audiences, Modernism (Aesthetics), Germany
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- City: Germany.
- Language: English
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"While National Socialist exhibitions are seen as platforms for attacking modern art, they also served as sites of surprising formal experimentation among artists, architects, and others, who often drew upon the practices and principles of modernism when designing exhibition spaces. Michael Tymkiw reveals that a central motivation behind such experimentation was the interest in provoking what he calls "engaged Read more...