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In 1939 the Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art aka Degenerate in the Melbourne Town Hall assembled canvases that included many of the best modernists in France and Britain.
Yosl Bergner, the Australian Years Hels 2009
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In 1939 the Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art aka Degenerate in the Melbourne Town Hall assembled canvases that included many of the best modernists in France and Britain.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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The climax in Hitler's campaign against modernist art took place in Munich in 1937 with an enormous exhibition called Degenerate Art, which included more than 700 works out of a total of about 16,000 confiscated from the museums.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Painted 20th Century As Terrible Bridge 2005
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It was during this period - for reasons which will become clear - that I thought I'd like to go into art history so my dissertation was about the censorship and restriction of art - in The Last Judgement, so-called Degenerate Art in Nazi Germany, Socialist Realism in the USSR and the Maplethorpe trial - comparing and contrasting the approaches.
feeling listless 2009
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Farther down the block the Deutsches Historisches Museum's Hitler exhibition, today's version of a "Degenerate" show, means to warn viewers about succumbing to what present German law declares morally reprehensible.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2010
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That happens to be the question the Nazis' "Degenerate" show posed about modern art.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2010
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That happens to be the question the Nazis' "Degenerate" show posed about modern art.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2010
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Farther down the block the Deutsches Historisches Museum's Hitler exhibition, today's version of a "Degenerate" show, means to warn viewers about succumbing to what present German law declares morally reprehensible.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2010
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They were last known to have been stored in the depot of the Reichspropagandaministerium, which organized the "Degenerate" show.
NYT > Global Home By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2010
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They were last known to have been stored in the depot of the Reichspropagandaministerium, which organized the "Degenerate" show.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2010
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