Reproduced in DVD format in 2018; Originally released as a videocassette in 1995 by PBS Home Video; Pursuant to section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act, the Luther College library has preserved this material in a digital format because the media was deteriorating and it was not longer possible to purchase an original at time of reproduction. Further reproduction is prohibited.
Originally issued as a videocassette (1995). Based on the exhibition "Degenerate Art" : the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991 Originally released as television documentary in 1993. Narrator: David McCullough.
Summary:
Describes Nazi attacks on the avant garde and their desecration of modernist art culminating in the 1937 exhibition of "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) in Munich. Describes the opening of the Haus der Kunst and the Nazi approved art it exhibited. Produced in conjunction with the 1991 Los Angeles County Museum reconstruction of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, which assembled more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show and gathered photographic documentation, motion-picture footage and the recollections of witnesses of the time
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1047999649
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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