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“gregor langfeld”

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  • German Art in New York

    The Canonization of Modern Art 1904-1957

    by Gregor Langfeld ...
    Translated by Steven Lindberg ...
    Why did the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York, and art collectors and curators such as Katherine Dreier and Alfred Barr, collect modern German art in the first half of the twentieth century? And why did certain works of art belong to the canon while others did not?, In this book, Gregor Langfeld argues that National Socialism played a crucial role in the canonization of movements ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

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  • Dada and Surrealism

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  • Bauhaus

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  • Modern Architecture

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  • Modernism

    The Lure of Heresy

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  • Egon Schiele

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  • Mussolini in Myth and Memory

    The First Totalitarian Dictator

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    Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ... Read more

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  • Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism

    Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism

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    This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century—one of which was to be of influence among the followers of Adolf Hitler, another of which was to shape the ideology of Benito Mussolini, and still another of which provided ... Read more

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