{"id":696,"date":"2018-06-14T06:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-06-14T06:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:01:33","slug":"library-explores-british-defence-of-german-degenerate-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/library-explores-british-defence-of-german-degenerate-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Library explores British defence of German &#8216;degenerate art&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were often innocuous landscapes, conservative portraits and colourful modernist abstract paintings of nothing in particular, but to the Nazis the artworks were \u201csick\u201d, \u201ctwisted\u201d and \u201cfilth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The story of\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2014\/mar\/13\/degenerate-art-attack-modern-art-nazi-germany-review-neue-galerie\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">German \u201cdegenerate art\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and the British defence of it is to be told in a display opening to the public on Wednesday at the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wienerlibrary.co.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Wiener library in London<\/a>, the world\u2019s oldest archive of material on the Holocaust and the Nazi era.<\/p>\n<p>It will tell the story of a groundbreaking exhibition of German art held in July 1938 at the New Burlington galleries in\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/london\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">London<\/a>\u00a0as a direct response to the famous \u201cdegenerate art\u201d exhibition staged by the Nazis in Munich in 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were often innocuous landscapes, conservative portraits and colourful modernist abstract paintings of nothing in particular, but to the Nazis the artworks were \u201csick\u201d, \u201ctwisted\u201d and \u201cfilth\u201d. The story of\u00a0German \u201cdegenerate art\u201d\u00a0and the British defence of it is to be told in a display opening to the public on Wednesday at the\u00a0Wiener library in London, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}