Aesthetics

Questions

"[…] In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art, Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism (sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers). [...]"

Susan Sontag, Fascinating Fascism, in: New York Review of Books, February 6 1975)

How can we define art in a dictatorship?

What was specific in NS?

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„we“ „community of a German people“ and “the others“ „enemies of this community“

Mobilisation of the masses

Classical pose as a campaign against modern aesthetics

Creation of a new extreme NS aesthetic