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Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederic Spotts (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAbrams, Inc.

ISBN-101590201787

ISBN-139781590201787

eBay Product ID (ePID)69809912

Product Key Features

Book TitleHitler and the Power of Aesthetics

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Europe / Germany, Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Art & Politics, Presidents & Heads of State

Publication Year2009

GenreArt, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorFrederic Spotts

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Grimly fascinating... A book that will rightly find its place among the central studies of Nazism....Invaluable."-The New York Times "Written with the erudition of a scholar and the page-turning power of a suspense novelist." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Extraordinary...opens an amazing and instructive window on to the Nazi era and Hitler himself." -Financial Times, "Grimly fascinating... A book that will rightly find its place among the central studies of Nazism....Invaluable."- The New York Times "Written with the erudition of a scholar and the page-turning power of a suspense novelist." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Extraordinary...opens an amazing and instructive window on to the Nazi era and Hitler himself." - Financial Times

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal943.086/092 B

Synopsis"A fascinating contribution to our understanding of Hitler's complex, chaotic, and catastrophic personality, and a compelling study of Hitler's artistic policies in the Third Reich."-Foreign Affairs 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).