@article{487429,
      recid = {487429},
      author = {Jaskot, Paul B.,},
      title = {The Nazi perpetrator postwar German art and the politics  of the right / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Minnesota Press,},
      address = {Minneapolis :},
      pages = {ix, 274 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party  leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and  bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question looms over  German disputes about the past like few others. It also  looms over the art and architecture of postwar Germany in  ways that have been surprisingly neglected. In The Nazi  Perpetrator, Paul B. Jaskot fundamentally reevaluates  pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture  against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates  over the Nazi past and the difficulty of determining who  was or was not a Nazi perpetrator.Like their fellow  Germans, postwar artists and architects grappled with the  Nazi past and the problem of defining the Nazi  perpetrator--a problem that was thoroughly entangled with  contemporary conservative politics and the explosive issue  of former Nazis living in postwar Germany. Beginning with  the formative connection between Nazi politics and art  during the 1930s, The Nazi Perpetrator traces the dilemma  of identifying the perpetrator across the entire postwar  period. Jaskot examines key works and episodes from West  Germany and, after 1989, reunified Germany, showing how the  changing perception of the perpetrator deeply impacted art  and architecture, even in cases where artworks and  buildings seem to have no obvious relation to the Nazi  past. The book also reinterprets important periods in the  careers of such major figures as Gerhard Richter, Anselm  Kiefer, and Daniel Libeskind.Combining political history  with a close analysis of specific works, The Nazi  Perpetrator powerfully demonstrates that the ongoing  influence of Nazi Germany after 1945 is much more central  to understanding a wide range of modern German art and  architecture than cultural historians have previously  recognized. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/487429},
}