The Degenerate Art Exhibition / the Impressionists vs Salons

Teresa mentioned these in a tutorial as a point of reference of the insiders/outsiders throughout art history, so I think a small amount of research is necessary to make this point in my essay / see if it is worth making.

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Levi, N. (1998) ‘”Judge for Yourselves!”- The “Degenerate Art” Exhibition as Political Spectacle’. October [Online] Volume 85, p 41-4 [24/10/16] Available from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/779182.pdf

Quotes:

•  In formulating this purpose, Goebbels emphasized the need to distinguish  between "the arts of those days and the art of our days."2 Yet the very need to make this distinction, to stage it so publicly, suggests that the difference between the two periods in art was a matter of so p.42-43

Notes/ paraphrases:

• The very way the exhibitions were hung were used as a tool to influence audience opinion of the work.
• The very nature of this exhibition was to create a division of us vs them. Obviously there are SO many contextual differences between this and Outsider Art, this one is quite open about the art being bad, but maybe O.A. is celebrated because of this very otherness?

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http://www.radford.edu/rbarris/art216upd2012/Impressionism.html (not sure how to reference this, although it is from an educational source.