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Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics Hardcover - 2003

by Frederic Spotts

In Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics, acclaimed historian Frederic Spotts presents a startling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations. Spotts, whose Bayreuth

Unlike the traditional biographical view that Hitler was an "unperson," who had no life outside of politics, Spotts shows that Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism and his argument is punctuated with photographs and illustrations, including reproductions of Hitler's watercolors and drawings from his 1925 sketchbook. The book offers the first full analysis of Hitler's own work as a painter, as well as of his art collection. It also treats the entire range of his personal interests: from architecture, painting, symphony, opera, and sculpture, to the German autobahn system and the development of the Volkswagen.

A riveting and highly original work, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics provides a key to an understanding of the Third Reich which has, until now, been missing from biographies and studies of the arts in the Third Reich, as well as from political and military studies of Hitler.


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Featuring a new introduction by the author. A starling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts' Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides a key to fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts convincingly demonstrates that contrary to the traditional view that Hitler had no life outside of politics, Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism-and that he used the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends. Hitler's vision of the Aryan superstate was to be expressed as much in art as in politics: culture was not only the end to which power should aspire, but the means of achieving it. Filled with evocative photographs and reproductions from Hitler's 1925 sketchbook, Spotts's study of the Fuhrer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is ...elegantly composed and richly documented (The New Yorker).

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  • Title Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics
  • Author Frederic Spotts
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Woodstock
  • Date January 6, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781585673452 / 1585673455
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.96 x 7.74 x 1.51 in (27.84 x 19.66 x 3.84 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Hitler, Adolf, Art and state - Germany - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002066302
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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