In his book Old Dreams of the New Reich, Jost Hermand developed this idea, observing, “National Socialist art is thus not unproblematically ‘beautiful,’ not merely devoted to perfect forms ...

Destined to be eradicated, Jews were not to be made immortal by becoming the subjects of the art of the thousand-year Reich, instead they were simply to be omitted from National Socialist art. Hitler ...

A selection of these paintings are permanently on view at the German Historical Museum in Berlin as examples of National Socialist propaganda art. All of these works are owned by the German ...

The author Upton Sinclair argued in 1925 that “all art is propaganda.” Sinclair’s socialist critique argues that essentially there’s little difference, since art is the representation of ...

As a socialist realist painter, his art was supposed to glorify the common ... Representatives of two Russian national museums attended the opening of the "Raising the Banner" exhibition.

and with its explicit “proletarian” theme already indicates the pressures to adapt to Socialist Realism. Alexander Bogomazov, Sharpening the Saws, 1927, National Art Museum of Ukraine [Photo ...

Andriy Movchan explores the influence of progressive thinkers on Ukrainian national consciousness, the debates among ...