Reflections of Nazism

An Essay on Kitsch and Death 

First Edition 1984

Friedlander, Saul

A short galvanizing indespensible unforgettable essay about the intersection between bad art and tyranny, sentimental landscapes and murder.

He also tries to show how Hitler and the Nazi movement appealed to wide sections of the German population and touches upon the eternal appeal of millenarian movements that promise universal destruction. There is also discussion of key questions as to how one can ever adequately represent the experience of the holocaust in art