Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Grubin, David.
2. Barron, Stephanie.
3. McCullough, David G.
4. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
5. David Grubin Productions.
6. PBS Home Video.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Describes Nazi attacks on the avant garde and their desecration of modernist art culminating in the 1937 exhibition of "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) in Munich. Describes the opening of the Haus der Kunst and the Nazi approved art it exhibited. Produced in conjunction with the 1991 Los Angeles County Museum reconstruction of the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, which assembled more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show and gathered photographic documentation, motion-picture footage and the recollections of witnesses of the time.

Subject

1. Art, German
2. Art, German > 20th century
3. National socialism and art
4. Germany > Cultural policy

Call number

1. *UGS-974

Note

1. Based on the exhibition "Degenerate Art" : the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991.
2. Originally released as television documentary in 1993.

Credits (note)

1. Cinematography, Allan Palmer; editor, Bob Eisenhardt; narrator, David McCullough; executive producers, David Grubin, Stephanie Barron.

System details (note)

1. VHS.

Title

1. Degenerate art [videorecording] / [produced by] Los Angeles County Museum of Art and David Grubin Productions, Inc. ; written, produced and directed by David Grubin.

Imprint

1. Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c1995.

System details

1. VHS.

Credits

1. Cinematography, Allan Palmer; editor, Bob Eisenhardt; narrator, David McCullough; executive producers, David Grubin, Stephanie Barron.

Added author

1. Grubin, David.
2. Barron, Stephanie.
3. McCullough, David G.
4. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
5. David Grubin Productions.
6. PBS Home Video.

Publisher no.

1. DEGA-901 PBS Home Video

Research call number

1. *UGS-974 [Video]