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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\u00a0it is because some elements of fascism are hard to deny. For an in depth analysis of that argument go here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/14\/the-empire-has-no-clothes-trumps-class-war-cabinet-the-f-word-and-the-coming-resistance\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n Images and montages are from Weimar, Hamburg and Berlin.<\/p>\n Here are the books that might inspire artists and anyone else who tries to figure out how to resist:<\/p>\n Beth Irwin Lewis,\u00a0George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n University of Wisconsin Press, 1971; reprint Princeton University Press, 1991<\/em><\/p>\n Peter Paret,\u00a0An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Cambridge University Press, 2003<\/em><\/p>\n Klaus Mann,\u00a0Mephisto<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n 1936; reprint Penguin Classics, 1995<\/em><\/p>\n Alan Riding,\u00a0And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Vintage, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n Alice Kaplan,\u00a0The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n University of Chicago Press, 2000<\/em><\/p>\n And here is the source for these recommendations, with detailed description of each book.<\/p>\n 5 Books to Read About Artists Under Nazism<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hayyei-Sarah-23-copy-3.jpg?resize=504%2C378&ssl=1\")
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