5/19/2023 0 Comments Capitalist realism review![]() If Nazi art were only ludicrous, it would provide one of those curious blips in the history of art, its role in the larger Nazi endeavour notwithstanding. ![]() Nazi Germany’s art then embraced (or rather had to embrace - resisters were driven out) the pompous, overblown, outright tacky kind of realist form it is now remembered for, a type of art that on a purely visual level has strong resemblances to what artists in the Soviet Union had to produce. As is widely known, the völkisch (nationalist) faction won over those who wanted to keep some of the country’s recent modernist art around. In the first chapter of his book Artists Under Hitler Jonathan Petropoulus describes how after coming to power, there was a relatively brief struggle over which direction German art was to take. ![]()
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