{"product_id":"art-as-politics-in-the-third-reich-9780807848098","title":"Art As Politics in the Third Reich","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt As Politics in the Third Reich\u003c\/strong\u003e by Petropoulos, Jonathan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780807848098.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural elite as well. In Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos explores the elites cultural aspirations by examining both the formulation of a national aesthetic policy and the content of the private art collections held by high-ranking Nazis. He demonstrates that these leaders manipulated public policy and their own collecting patterns to articulate fundamental tenets of Nazi ideology.\nPetropoulos begins by tracing the evolution of official aesthetic policy, from the purges of museum staff and academics labeled as undesirable in 1933 to the confiscation of Jewish-owned artworks in the late 1930s and the organized plundering of art from occupied areas during the war. He then reconstructs the collections of a dozen prominent Nazi officials -- including Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, and Ribbentrop -- and argues that their private holdings defined their relationships to one another within the Nazi hierarchy in addition to reflecting their racist and nationalist beliefs. According to Petropoulos, art collecting offered the political elite a way to achieve legitimacy and social standing, thereby providing a common cultural language for the leaders of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986141311029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807848093","price":41.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807848098_37cb56f2-560b-4370-8a56-17743b05745b.jpg?v=1778663786","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-as-politics-in-the-third-reich-9780807848098","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}