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- Subject: **************** Degenerate Art! ****************
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 96 08:05:09 GMT
- Organization: Let PhreaDom HReang
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- n July of 1937, the official Nazi exhibition of Entartete Kunst
- (Degenerate Art) opened in Mⁿnchen, one day after the first "Great
- German Art Exhibition" premiered. A culmination of Hitler and
- Goebbels' purge of all remaining modern art held in both public and
- private collections in the Reich, the exhibit was designed to ridicule
- and denigrate creative works not upholding "correct" National
- Socialist virtues.
-
- The exhibition was organized by such subject matter as "Insult to
- German Womanhood" and "Mockery of God"; it drew upon sensationalism to
- incite controversy and public furor. Minors were barred from the show,
- the pretext being that decent German youth needed to be shielded
- from the depth of the artworks' obscenity, lest the future of the
- Reich be corrupted.
-
- Entartete Kunst portrayed the eclipse of an age of "decadence and
- chaos", while the Great German Art exhibit heralded the dawn of a new
- epoch of Governmental control of the Arts: sanitized, uninspired, and
- devoid of dissent.
-
- On March 20th, 1939, the Degenerate Art Commission ordered over one
- thousand paintings and almost four thousand watercolors and drawings
- burned in the courtyard of a fire station in Berlin. Other works were
- auctioned off to the highest bidder. The final solution for artwork
- deemed unacceptable for public consumption was complete.
-
- Even today, there are individuals that would rather silence creativity
- than allow freedom of speech and of the press to flourish. They hide
- behind the pretense that "children" need to be protected against
- exposure to "indecent material"; this entitles them to censor anything
- that
- they find inappropriate. Just as in Nazi Germany, there are now those
- in the Government that would pervert and twist the law to erode
- personal liberties, and, through "official" means, would prosecute and
- persecute anyone who refuses to conform.
-
- The "Entartete Kunst" exhibit guide was a brochure
- that
- espoused the intolerance of ideas; the cover now
- emblazes those Web pages that rely on Freedom of
- Expression rights to exist.
-
-
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America
-
- Approved by the First Congress in 1789 and ratified by the States in
- 1791, the first ten amendments to the Constitution (also known as the
- Bill of Rights) assure basic individual liberties essential to a free
- and democratic
- society.
-
- Article I
-
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
- prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
- speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
- assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
-
-
-
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-
- Our patience with all those who have not been able to fall in line
- are at an end. ...
- What you are seeing here are the crippled products of madness,
- impertinence, and lack of talent. ...
- I would need several freight trains to clear our galleries of this
- rubbish. ...
- This will happen soon."
-
- -- Adolf Ziegler
- President of the Reich Culture Chamber
- Nazi Germany 1937
-
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Explore the following Web Sites to learn about
- protecting your Freedom of Expression rights
- on the Internet:
-
-
- http://www.cdt.org/ http://www.eff.org/ http://www.epic.org/
-
-
- http://www.vtw.org/ http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/
-
- http://www.zynet.com/~grotesk/html/ccbt.html
-
- "Our patience with all those who have not been able to fall in line
- is at an end. ... What you are seeing here are the crippled products
- of madness, impertinence, and lack of talent. ... I would need
- several freight trains to clear our galleries of this rubbish. ...
- This will happen soon."
-
- -- Adolf Ziegler
- President of the Reich Culture Chamber
- 1937
-