What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
Crashing and Burning the Drumpf Shuttle
Wilhelm Furtwangler, defending composer Paul Hindemith in November 1934, wrote he was also bringing into the open the whole question of interference by political zealots in Germany’s artistic life. ‘What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?’”
See also America then and now. Answer: We are become ruined, derelict, and empty.
“It’s all almost too stereotypical,” Shore reflects. “A 1930s-style military parade as a performative assertion of the Führerprinzip,” she says, referring to the doctrine established by Adolf Hitler, locating all power...