Research Catalog

Title

Art and power : Europe under the dictators, 1930-45 / compiled and selected by Dawn Ades ... [et al.] ; foreword by Eric Hobsbawm ; afterword by Neal Ascherson.

Publication

London : Hayward Gallery, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Ades, Dawn
• Hayward Gallery
• Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
• Deutsches Historisches Museum.
• Council of Europe. Art Exhibition (23rd : 1995)

Description

360 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

This survey provides an in-depth study of the relationship of art and power in what has been called the "Europe of the Dictators": Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR and Mussolini's Italy. Examples encompass art, architecture, cinema, photography and literature

Alternative Title

Europe under the dictators, 1930-45

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art > History > Europe > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art and state > Europe > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art > Political aspects > Exhibitions
• Propaganda in art > Exhibitions
• Fascism and art > Exhibitions
• Communism and art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Exhibition catalogues (form)

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, Oct. 26, 1995-Jan. 21, 1996, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Feb. 26-May 6, 1996 and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, June 7-Aug. 20, 1996.
• "The XXIII Council of Europe exhibition."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1853321486 (pbk.)
• 0500237190

OCLC

• 37906616
• SCSB-12248094

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library