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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Hutchinson
Publication date
June 1, 2002
Pages
488
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780091793944
ISBN-10
0091793947
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Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$75.00
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Secondhand Time | Gorilla Mindset | The Young Hitler I Knew | Hitler, 1889-1936 | Hitler's Vienna | Hitler at Home | Goebbels | Ordinary Men | Art of the Third Reich
Secondhand Time | Gorilla Mindset | The Young Hitler I Knew | Hitler, 1889-1936 | Hitler's Vienna | Hitler at Home | Goebbels | Ordinary Men | Art of the Third Reich
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "A fascinating contribution to our understanding of Hitler's complex, chaotic, and catastrophic personality, and a compelling study of Hitler's artistic policies in the Third Reich."-Foreign Affairs
Featuring a new introduction by the author. A starling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts' Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides a key to fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts convincingly demonstrates that contrary to the traditional view that Hitler had no life outside of politics, Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism-and that he used the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends. Hitler's vision of the Aryan superstate was to be expressed as much in art as in politics: culture was not only the end to which power should aspire, but the means of achieving it.
Filled with evocative photographs and reproductions from Hitler's 1925 sketchbook, "Spotts's study of the Fuhrer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is ...elegantly composed and richly documented" (The New Yorker).
Featuring a new introduction by the author. A starling reassessment of Hitler's aims and motivations, Frederic Spotts' Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics is an adroitly argued and highly original work that provides a key to fuller understanding of the Third Reich. Spotts convincingly demonstrates that contrary to the traditional view that Hitler had no life outside of politics, Hitler's interest in the arts was as intense as his racism-and that he used the arts to disguise the heinous crimes that were the means to fulfilling his ends. Hitler's vision of the Aryan superstate was to be expressed as much in art as in politics: culture was not only the end to which power should aspire, but the means of achieving it.
Filled with evocative photographs and reproductions from Hitler's 1925 sketchbook, "Spotts's study of the Fuhrer's fascination with architecture, painting, sculpture, and music is ...elegantly composed and richly documented" (The New Yorker).
Editions
Hardcover
from Overlook Pr (January 1, 2003)
9781585673452 | details & prices | 420 pages | 7.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.06 lbs | List price $37.50
About: A reassessment of Hitler's goals and motivations demonstrates how he thought of himself more as an artist than a politician, noting his ability to promote German national pride and citing his inluence on the period's artistic development.
About: A reassessment of Hitler's goals and motivations demonstrates how he thought of himself more as an artist than a politician, noting his ability to promote German national pride and citing his inluence on the period's artistic development.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Hutchinson (June 1, 2002)
9780091793944 | details & prices | 488 pages | List price $75.00
About: "A fascinating contribution to our understanding of Hitler's complex, chaotic, and catastrophic personality, and a compelling study of Hitler's artistic policies in the Third Reich.
About: "A fascinating contribution to our understanding of Hitler's complex, chaotic, and catastrophic personality, and a compelling study of Hitler's artistic policies in the Third Reich.
Paperback
from Overlook Pr (January 27, 2009)
9781590201787 | details & prices | 456 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $19.95
Reprint edition from Overlook Pr (March 1, 2004)
9781585675074 | details & prices | 464 pages | 7.00 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.48 lbs | List price $24.95
About: A reassessment of Hitler's goals and motivations demonstrates how he thought of himself more as an artist than a politician, noting his ability to promote German national pride and devotion to him as a leader, and citing his influence on the period's artistic development.
About: A reassessment of Hitler's goals and motivations demonstrates how he thought of himself more as an artist than a politician, noting his ability to promote German national pride and devotion to him as a leader, and citing his influence on the period's artistic development.
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