Art Under a Dictatorship

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1954

In the opening pages of this 277 page volume, the author remarks on how a string of powerful ideas with no relationship to the truth, can still hold, and materialize into hard reality. Sound familiar ? LEARN more about : Gustav Britsch, Dresden, Robert Boettcher, V-bombs, Entartung, Treptow Park, counterattacks, Dessau, National Socialism, Zwickau, and Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder. Notes and index at back. Occasional b/w drawings within text. Book opens with a section of b/w photographs. Cond : Boards are black with silver gilt lettering and graphics. Dust jacket is missing. Minimal wear. Colours bright, binding tight. Both pastedowns have prominent brown stains that affect little. Toned, light soiling. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 89) : " And what did the visitor see in this exhibition and in the illustrated catalogue he took home with him ? What he saw there was exactly the kind of paintings my parents would have looked at in the Glaspalast exhibitions thirty or forty years earlier on their way through Munich to ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 011100

Bibliographic Details

Title: Art Under a Dictatorship
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Publication Date: 1954
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: B/W Photographs
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition.