TY - BOOK ID - 77866719 TI - Art, ideology & economics in Nazi Germany : the Reich chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts PY - 1993 SN - 080786479X 0585027560 9780585027562 9780807864791 0807821047 9780807821046 0807846074 9780807846070 0807846074 9780807846070 9798890867063 PB - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - 82:7 KW - 82:32 KW - 82:32 Literatuur en politiek KW - Literatuur en politiek KW - 82:7 Literatuur en kunst KW - Literatuur en kunst KW - Arts, German. KW - National socialism and art. KW - Arts KW - Arts allemands KW - Nazisme et art KW - Economic aspects KW - Aspect économique KW - National Socialism KW - Art KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866719 AB - From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. Steinweis gives special attention to Nazi efforts to purge the arts of Jews and other so-called undesirables.Steinweis describes the political, professional, and economic environment in which German artists were compelled to function and explains the structure of decision making, thus showing in whose interest cultural policies were formulated. He discusses such issues as insurance, minimum wage statutes, and certification guidelines, all of which were matters of high priority to the art professions before 1933 as well as after the Nazi seizure of power. By elucidating the economic and professional context of cultural life, Steinweis helps to explain the widespread acquiescence of German artists to artistic censorship and racial 'purification.' His work also sheds new light on the purge of Jews from German cultural life. ER -