Haus der Kunst: Symposium: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh ()

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh - Designs and dialectics of annihilation The Degenerate Art Exhibition and the international Surrealist Art Exhibition in 1937 and 1938 Within less than a year, two major exhibitions signaled the imminent end of avant-garde culture in Europe in 1937-1938. The first was a violent campaign of destruction serving National Socialist propaganda goals; a fascist purge of Weimar Germany’s progressive museum culture and collections. The second was staged by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp on