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Degenerate Art is in the process of being re-worked as a group blog.
Content will be in reaction to life under fascism, under the tags, Art, Music, and Writing. The Blog will be for site-related news and info.
Things are just getting configured. We're almost functional. Have a look around, which we're getting started. This blog is federated, meaning it is part of the fediverse.
The Fediverse?
Yah. This blog is federated. No time to explain what that is just now. I'll eventually write a short description. This is the lowdown:
- if you're on the fediverse, you can follow us at @fuckfash@degenerate.art
- if you aren't, but might want to, read these:
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What is Degenerate Art?
(the following is from Wikipedia)
Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst)was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included dismissal from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art.
Degenerate Art also was the title of a 1937 exhibition held by the Nazis in Munich, consisting of 650 modernist artworks that the Nazis had taken from museums, that were poorly hung alongside graffiti and text labels mocking the art and the artists.[1]Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria.
While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience. Similar restrictions were placed upon music, which was expected to be tonal and free of any jazz influences; disapproved music was termed degenerate music. Films and plays were also censored.[2]