The Resource The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art, Charlie English
The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art, Charlie English
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The item The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art, Charlie English represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn collected and published their work, inspiring the Modernist movement that was coming into fashion just as a young Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna to begin his brief, failed career as a painter. Hitler was alienated by the Modernists and what he called their "degenerate" art that expressed the most primal human emotions. He saw it as a disease in the body politic and set out to crush it with the infamous "Degenerate Art" exhibition Goebbels and Hitler engineered in 1938, that mocked the work of mental patients and Modernists. The cultural cleansing was a precursor to the racial cleansing and Prinzhorns's patient artists would be caught up in both. Hitler developed the first gas chambers as a way to dispose of 70,273 patients, including Franz Buhler. In The Gallery of Miracles and Madness, the Nazis' cultural destruction, which would rightly be considered among the lesser sins of the Reich, puts the horror of the Holocaust into relief. The cultural decimation--the burning of books and artwork--was a stepping stone to the more overt horrors of the Holocaust. By equating artistic expression with sickness, Hitler made the case to the German people that they could not be made whole until those spreading this sickness were destroyed. Showing us the way Hitler's most profound personal insecurities fan the flames of nationalism and unfolding the transition from Weimar life to Nazi life from less familiar points of view--the ward of a psychiatric hospital, the contents of a museum--English poses profound questions about what is really at stake in cultural objects and offers us a fresh look at the brutality of the Nazi regime."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- The man who jumped in the canal
- The hypnosis in the wood
- A meeting at Emmendingen
- Dangerous to look at!
- The schizophrenic masters
- Adventures in no-man's-land
- Pleasant little pictures
- Dinner with the Bruckmanns
- Glimpses of a transcendental world
- Art and race
- A cultural revolution
- The sculptor of Germany
- Cleansing the temple of art
- To be German means to be clear
- The sacred and the insane
- The girl with the blue hair
- Foxes with white coats
- Choking angel
- You will ride on the gray bus
- In the madhouse
- Landscapes of the brain
- Isbn
- 9780525512059
- Label
- The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art
- Title
- The gallery of miracles and madness
- Title remainder
- insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art
- Statement of responsibility
- Charlie English
- Subject
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- Art and mental illness -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Prinzhorn, Hans)
- History
- History / Holocaust
- Killing of the mentally ill -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933
- Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933 -- Art collections
- National socialism and art
- Art -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn collected and published their work, inspiring the Modernist movement that was coming into fashion just as a young Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna to begin his brief, failed career as a painter. Hitler was alienated by the Modernists and what he called their "degenerate" art that expressed the most primal human emotions. He saw it as a disease in the body politic and set out to crush it with the infamous "Degenerate Art" exhibition Goebbels and Hitler engineered in 1938, that mocked the work of mental patients and Modernists. The cultural cleansing was a precursor to the racial cleansing and Prinzhorns's patient artists would be caught up in both. Hitler developed the first gas chambers as a way to dispose of 70,273 patients, including Franz Buhler. In The Gallery of Miracles and Madness, the Nazis' cultural destruction, which would rightly be considered among the lesser sins of the Reich, puts the horror of the Holocaust into relief. The cultural decimation--the burning of books and artwork--was a stepping stone to the more overt horrors of the Holocaust. By equating artistic expression with sickness, Hitler made the case to the German people that they could not be made whole until those spreading this sickness were destroyed. Showing us the way Hitler's most profound personal insecurities fan the flames of nationalism and unfolding the transition from Weimar life to Nazi life from less familiar points of view--the ward of a psychiatric hospital, the contents of a museum--English poses profound questions about what is really at stake in cultural objects and offers us a fresh look at the brutality of the Nazi regime."--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- English, Charlie
- Dewey number
- 700.94309043
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- N6868.5.N37
- LC item number
- E54 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prinzhorn, Hans
- Prinzhorn, Hans
- National socialism and art
- Art and mental illness
- Art
- Killing of the mentally ill
- Label
- The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art, Charlie English
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
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- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The man who jumped in the canal -- The hypnosis in the wood -- A meeting at Emmendingen -- Dangerous to look at! -- The schizophrenic masters -- Adventures in no-man's-land -- Pleasant little pictures -- Dinner with the Bruckmanns -- Glimpses of a transcendental world -- Art and race -- A cultural revolution -- The sculptor of Germany -- Cleansing the temple of art -- To be German means to be clear -- The sacred and the insane -- The girl with the blue hair -- Foxes with white coats -- Choking angel -- You will ride on the gray bus -- In the madhouse -- Landscapes of the brain
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780525512059
- Lccn
- 2020044464
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1222055523
- Label
- The gallery of miracles and madness : insanity, modernism, and Hitler's war on art, Charlie English
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The man who jumped in the canal -- The hypnosis in the wood -- A meeting at Emmendingen -- Dangerous to look at! -- The schizophrenic masters -- Adventures in no-man's-land -- Pleasant little pictures -- Dinner with the Bruckmanns -- Glimpses of a transcendental world -- Art and race -- A cultural revolution -- The sculptor of Germany -- Cleansing the temple of art -- To be German means to be clear -- The sacred and the insane -- The girl with the blue hair -- Foxes with white coats -- Choking angel -- You will ride on the gray bus -- In the madhouse -- Landscapes of the brain
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780525512059
- Lccn
- 2020044464
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1222055523
Subject
- Art and mental illness -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Prinzhorn, Hans)
- History
- History / Holocaust
- Killing of the mentally ill -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933
- Prinzhorn, Hans, 1886-1933 -- Art collections
- National socialism and art
- Art -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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