Hitler and the power of aesthetics / Frederic Spotts

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Preface, xi.-- Sources, xv.-- Acknowledgements, xxi.-- The reluctant dictator: The bohemian aesthete, 3.-- A philosophy of culture, 16.-- The grand paradox, 28.-- The artful leader, 43.-- The artist as politician, 43.-- The politician as artist, 73.-- The artist of destruction: The New Germany and the New German, 97.-- Purification by death, 113.-- The failed painter: The stronggeling watercolourist, 123.-- Forgers and collectors, 138.-- The art dictator: The modernist enemy, 151.-- The failure of National Socialist Realism, 169.-- The art collector, 187.-- The perfect Wagnerite: Hider´s Wagner or Wagner´s Hitler?, 223.-- “Führer of the Bayreuth Republic”, 247.-- The music master: The Rape of Euterpe, 267.-- The music patron, 277.-- Conductors and composers, 289.-- The master builder: Inmorality through Architecture, 311.-- Political Architecture, 330.-- Remodelling Germany, 351.-- Aesthetics and transport, 386.-- After word, 399.-- Source notes, 402.-- Books cited in text, 457.-- Index, 444.