Year 2 Proposal This year in my cop I explored the quote 'The history we read [...] though based on facts, is, strictly speaking, not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgements.’ in which I looked into the lies that political figureheads told throughout the media. I quite enjoyed looking at a subject that wasn’t just face value. For COP2 I’m not really sure where I want to take the project, I don’t know if I can really add on from what I’ve got although I kind of like the idea of carrying on with developing work on the Armenian genocide- looking further into how people buried it and looking at the use of art and photography to try and uncover it. I would also prefer to look into a more arty topicsuch as expanding into things such as Hitler's “Degenerate art”. Why did he hate it? What effect did it have on any current art movements of the time? My art in COP reflected hiding history whereas COP2 would be about how Hitler berated existing art and how it effected the movements.
Related subjects
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Art galleries Degenerate Art Modern/Abstract Art Green/Roman Art Armenian Genocide
Relevant Quotes
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[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect…the art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses. – Adolf Hitler
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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the srvice of a moral, political, and cultural idea. – Adolf Hitler
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"It is not the mission of art to wallow in filth for filth's sake, to paint the human being only in a state of putrefaction, to draw cretins as symbols of motherhood, or to present deformed idiots as representatives of manly strength”.-- Adolf Hitler excepted from a speech made at a National Socialist Party rally, Nuremberg, September 11, 1935.
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“The artist does not create for the artist: He creates for the people and we will see to it that henceforth the people will be called in to judge its art”. -- Adolf Hitler
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“This has nothing at all to do with the suppression of artistic freedom and modem progress” -- Joseph Göbbels, November 26th, 1937, in Von der Großmacht zur Weltmacht on the seizure of thousands of works of German art.
Relevant books
• Adolf Hitler und der Christlich-Soziale Volksdienst. Ein Gespräch aus dem Frühjahr 1932, William L. Patch • Interview: Our Hitler as Visual Politics Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Beatriz Schiller, Rod Ott Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1980), pp. 50-58 • The Art of Hitler, Steven Kasher • "Decent" vs. "Degenerate" Art: The National Socialist Case, MaryMargaret Goggin • Munich, Lucia Moholy
Relevant websites • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24819441 • https://literaturesalon.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/hitl ers-ban-on-modern-art-the-degenerate-art-exhibit-of-1 937/ • https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar /13/degenerate-art-attack-modern-art-nazi-germanyreview-neue-galerie • http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide_art.html • http://www.armeniangenocideposters.org/ • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maurizio-g-debonis/armenian-genocide-art_b_6857788.html
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