yeah, the Nazi's dichotomy between "Great German" art and "Degenerate" art inadvertently showed the difference -- knock off Greco-roman sculptures and Hobby Lobby paintings vs some of the greatest art ever made.
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I think your point risks falling into the völkish anti-nazism ganz describes too. I dont mean to be full antideutsch but i think what the essay is getting at is there *is* some overlap. Of course there’s a ton of kitsch but some of that great Romantic art did also fuel ultranationalist ideology
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I love Schleiermacher and am jewish. Yes we exist
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yea emil nolde was a fascist
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Great art is not a pure distillation of some kind of aesthetic Geist but rather the work of interesting weirdos, more and more people are saying.
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