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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 709.4409044 EAN: 9780892368914 ISBN: 0892368918 Label: Getty Publications Manufacturer: Getty Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: January 15, 2009 Publisher: Getty Publications Studio: Getty Publications Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in Occupied France. Beginning with Adolf Hitler's staging of the armistice at Rethondes, the book offers a survey of Nazi and Vichy artistic policies, key events and organizations, and individual acts of collaboration and resistance. Among the subjects examined are the demonization of foreigners and modernists, the looting of state museums and Jewish collections, the glorification of Philippe Petain and French national identity, and the official junket by French artists to Germany. The narrative is grounded by archival research and discussion of works by Gerard Ambroselli, Jean Bazaine, Arno Breker, Francois Cogne, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and dozens of other artists and artisans. The sum is a pioneering expose of the deployment of art to hold darkness at bay. 
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