{"product_id":"nazi-propaganda-through-art-and-norman-ridley-9781036100216","title":"Nazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture: Creating the Myth of Hitler's Third Reich","description":"\u003cb\u003eNorman Ridley explores how Hitler's artistic and architectural vision for Germany led to the monumental structures which we now associate with the Third Reich.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a program of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed into believing in the new regime. Hearts and minds had to be won over and one of the ways the Nazis did that was to create an ideal of German nationhood in which everyone could feel proud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was especially the case with art, which came to be used as a powerful tool of propaganda both to disseminate the myth amongst the population and indicate to the Nazi administrators the sort of cultural environment they should create. It was not an easy thing to do. While the nation was being re-created as a dynamic, modern, and powerful industrial giant, all the signals coming from Hitler indicated that his own idyllic view of the German nation was of a traditional, rural people deep-rooted in a romantic-mystical aesthetic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHitler's own experience as an artist in Vienna before the First World War had shown that, while technically proficient, his work was detached and impersonal. Despite being rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts he continued to see himself as artistically gifted, especially in the field of architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book looks at how the artistic side of Hitler's personality dominated Nazi aesthetics and the ways in which the Third Reich manipulated public opinion and advanced its political agenda using the power of art. Despite his early setbacks, Hitler always thought of himself first and foremost an artist. He would frequently break off discussions with diplomats and soldiers to veer off on a lecture about his ideas on art and architecture which had been formed during his time in Vienna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Hitler's artistic and architectural vision for Germany led to the monumental structures which we now associate with the Third Reich, alongside the rural idyl he sought to espouse, and how they came to symbolise the re-emergent power of a German nation which would dominate Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Ridley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1036100219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781036100216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Frontline Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.22w x 0.94d","brand":"Norman Ridley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45898567188735,"sku":"9781036100216","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98743bf4-3a04-4b40-8ea8-3031ddb05f3e.jpg?v=1721376610","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nazi-propaganda-through-art-and-norman-ridley-9781036100216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}