DECADENT ART
Someone has sent me a copy, writes “ Janus ” in the Spectator, of a guide to the exhibition of decadent art which is now touring the principal cities of Germany under the auspices of one of the departments of Dr Goebbels’s Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda. The purpose of the exhibition is to show what Germany has been saved from by Herr Hitler and his henchman. The works collected are by Jewish and Communist artists, or, as Goebbels would say, “artists,” and the reproductions in the guide are uniformly entertaining if not uniformly edifying. Some ingenious juxtapositions of masterpieces of modern art with the productions of incurable lunatics in madhouses put a heavy premium on madness as against modernity. There is a lot to be said for such an exhibition in London.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 20
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133DECADENT ART Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 20
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