DEGENERATE ART. THE ATTACK ON MODERN ART IN NAZI GERMANY 1937

This book accompanies the first major museum exhibition devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. During the Nazi regime in Germany, degenerate art was the official term for much of the most important modern art of the day. Degenerate art was defined by the Nazi regime as artwork tha t was not in line with the National Socialists' ideas of beauty.