The week concludes with recommended reading about how artists function under authoritarian regimes. Mostly because it is so apropos in our current situation here in the US. (I do believe it is because some elements of fascism are hard to deny. For an in depth analysis of that argument go here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/14/the-empire-has-no-clothes-trumps-class-war-cabinet-the-f-word-and-the-coming-resistance/)

Images and montages are from Weimar, Hamburg and Berlin.

Here are the books that might inspire artists and anyone else who tries to figure out how to resist:

Beth Irwin Lewis, George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic

University of Wisconsin Press, 1971; reprint Princeton University Press, 1991

Peter Paret, An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Klaus Mann, Mephisto

1936; reprint Penguin Classics, 1995

Alan Riding, And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

Vintage, 2010

Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

University of Chicago Press, 2000

And here is the source for these recommendations, with detailed description of each book.

5 Books to Read About Artists Under Nazism