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LITERATURAAndersen 2007: W. Andersen, German Artists and Hitler’s Mind:Avant-Garde Art in a Turbulent Era, Boston: Editions Fabriart.Biljman (2012): T. Biljman, Kratki pregled kvazinaučnog pravdanjazločina – Eugenika i njena recepcija u srpskim naučnim krugovima,Zbornik Beogradske otvorene škole XVI (2012)97–106.Bryan, Julien. „Degenerate art“ Exhibition in Munich 1937. TheNew York Times.30.4.2015.Grubin, David. Degenerate Art - 1993, The Nazis vs Expressionism2012. YouTube.29.7.2013.Domarus 1990: M. Domarus, Hitler – Speeches and Proclamations1932-1945 Vol 1, Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers.Entartete Kunst inventory. Victoria & Albert Museum.29.4.2015.Galton 1883: F. Galton, Inquiries Into Human Faculty and ItsDevelopment, London: Macmillan.Ginder, Ursula.Munich 1937: The Development of Two Pivotal ArtExhibitions. UCSB. 25.7.2014.Guide to the „Degenerate Art“ Exhibition. German History inDocuments and Images. 29.7.2013.Hitler sketches that failed to secure his place at art academy to beauctioned.The Telegraph.14.7.2013.Hobsbaum 2002: E. Hobsbaum, Doba extrema – Istorija kratkogdvadesetog veka 1914–1991, Beograd: Dereta.Levi, Neil.Judge for yourselves! – The “Degenerate Art” Exhibitionas Political Spectacle. JSTOR. 15.4.2015.Longerich 2010: P. Longerich, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecutionand Murder of the Jews, New York: Oxford University Press.Mitrović 2004: A. Mitrović, Vreme netrpeljivih, Beograd: Vojnaštamparija.Mitrović 2011: A. Mitrоvić, Angažоvanо i lepо: umetnоst urazdоblju svetskih ratоva (1914–1945), Beоgrad: Zavоd zaudžbenike.Peters (2014): O. Peters, Catalog for Degenerate Art: The Attack onModern Art in Nazi Germany 1937, New York: Neue Galerie.Petropoulos 2000: J. Petropoulos, The Faustian Bargain – The ArtWorld in Nazi Germany, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.Schlenker 2007: I. Schlenker, Hitler’s Salon – The Große DeutscheKunstausstellung at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich1937-1944, Bern: Peter Lang AG.Spotts 2009: F. Spotts, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics,Woodstock: Overlook Press.Šper 1980: A. Šper, Sjećanja iz Trećeg Rajha, Rijeka: OtokarKeršovani.Thomas, Dana. From Art to Hate. Newsweek. 29.4.2015.Kimmelman, Michael.The Art Hitler Hated.The New York Reviewof Books. 29.4.2015.FUNERAL OF MODERN ART – THE “DEGENERATE ART EXHIBITION” IN MUNICH 1937This research represents a different perception of the „Degenerate Art” Exhibition, not as a merely grotesquecultural event from the Third Reich history, but as an extremely powerful mean of Nazi propaganda. With the help ofarticles, preserved guide of the said expo, documentaries and documented statements of visitors, I was able to identifymultiple layers and true message of this exhibition. After the horrors of World War One, German artists set themselves ona mission to unmask false idols, destroy imposed ideals and put the light on the new force which threatened to swallowthe weakened people of Germany. The party in question was new-born National Socialist Movement, an opponentthat would sentence them to symbolic death in 1937 at the „Degenerate Art” Exhibition. However, the reason of thisexhibition does not lie simply in an attempt to „clean” a new culture of modern elements in order to return to classicistideals nor to get rid of “noisy” artists. This was a very important playground for political propaganda which Nazis usedto promote anti-bolshevist and anti-Semitic ideas, eradication of everything primitive, foreign and uncontrolled, as wellas everything which was pacifist or had an individualistic tendency. The very name of this exhibition indicates anotherpurpose of this event, an attempt of shaping public awareness about one of the most problematic issues of Nazi policy– eugenics.Only a few years later groups and ideas marked as unfit at the „Degenerate Art” Exhibition became the truevictims of senseless bloodshed.tamara.biljman@gmail.com37