French art and politics scholar Eric Michaud, author of The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany<\/EM>, will be at York University today to discuss \"Are Hitler\u2019s Portraits Charismatic?\" <\/P> The most incisive studies of the Nazi regime, Michaud believes, are those which neither focus exclusively on the figure of the f\u00fchrer nor on those who obeyed his orders but upon the relationship that was established between the two. The lecture will explore how Hitler\u2019s portraits were precisely designed to construct this relationship, that is to construct the charisma of the f\u00fchrer.<\/P> The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany <\/EM>is a translation of Michaud's Un art de l'\u00e9ternit\u00e9 <\/EM>and will be published by Stanford University Press next spring. According to the publisher, the book presents a new interpretation of national socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the Aryan race, a race pronounced superior because it alone creates culture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison d\u2019\u00eatre of a regime defined by Hitler as the \u201cdictatorship of genius.\u201d<\/P> Michaud, a professor at the Ecole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales (Paris), works on the relations between politics and art. He is the author of Th\u00e9\u00e2tre au Bauhaus, 1919-1929 (1978), Hypnoses <\/EM>(with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Jean-Luc Nancy, 1984), La fin du salut par l'image <\/EM>(1992), Un art de l'\u00e9ternit\u00e9: L'image et le temps du national-socialisme <\/EM>(1996), Fabriques de l'homme nouveau: de L\u00e9ger \u00e0 Mondrian <\/EM>(1997). <\/EM><\/P> Michaud's talk, sponsored by the Graduate Program in Art History, the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, and the Centre for Jewish Studies, will take place in the Harry Crowe Room, 109 Atkinson Building at 2:30pm.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" French scholar Eric Michaud has made a career of examining the link between art and politics...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n
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