Course Details
Country:
Germany
Course Title:
Art and Dictatorship
Course Number:
FU-BEST 19
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to art and politics in the context of dictatorship, focused on the examples of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain. Official art and architecture in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union will then be examined, focusing on the works of Albert Speer, Giuseppe Terragni, Arno Breker, and Leni Riefenstahl. Modernist and Jewish artists were persecuted, forced into emigration or deported to concentration camps. As a complement to the lectures, formal field-trips to historically significant sites and museums constitute an integral component of the course.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ARTH 398, ARTH 398, ARTH 362
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