ART 397 Special Topics:  Art and the Holocaust
Select Bibliography

The following select bibliography (and those sources already cited on the syllabus) should be used as a starting point only for your papers.  It is neither complete nor systematic, but rather lists key titles and recent works that might help you in thinking about the initial research for your topic.  You should consult the footnotes and bibliographies of these sources and others in order to lead you to other central works related to your specific subject.

Ziva Amishai-Maisels, "Art Confronts the Holocaust," in Monica Bohm-Duchen, ed., After Auschwitz. Responses to the Holocuast in Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 1995: 49-77.

Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan, eds., Reevaluating the Third Reich, New York, 1993.

Glenn R. Cuomo, ed., National Socialist Cultural Policy, New York, 1995.

F.C. Decoste and Bernard Schwartz, eds., The Holocaust's Ghost.  Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education, Edmonton, 2000.

Berthold Hinz, Art in the Third Reich, New York, 1979.

Elaine S. Hochman, Architects of Fortune. Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich, New York, 1989.

Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland, New York, 1987.

Paul B. Jaskot, "The Function of Anti-Semitic Policy in Albert Speer’s Plans for the Rebuilding of Berlin," Art Bulletin (Dec. 1996): 622-632.

Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory. The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum, New York, 1995.

Yosefa Loshitzky, ed., Spielberg’s Holocaust. Critical Perspectives on Schindler’s List, Bloomington, 1997.

Lynn H. Nicholas, The Rape of Europa. The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, New York, 1994.

Annie Richardson, "The Nazification of Women in Art," in The Nazification of Art, Winchester, 1990: 204-218.

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, "The Architects’ Debate: Architectural Discourse and the Memory of Nazism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1977-1997," History and Memory 9, nos ½ (Fall 1997): 189-225.

Wieland Schmied, "Typical and Unique: Art in Berlin, 1945-1970," in Berlin Art. 1961-1987, New York, 1987.

Matthias Schmidt, Albert Speer. The End of a Myth, London, 1985.

Linda Schulte-Sasse, Entertaining the Third Reich.  Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema, Durham, 1996.

Alex Scobie, Hitler’s State Architecture, University Park, 1990.

Martina Weinland and Kurt Winkler, The Jewish Museum in the Berlin Municipal Museum, Berlin, 1997.

James E. Young, At Memory's Edge. After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, New Haven, 2000.
 

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