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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Cover of the 1937 guide book to the Degenerate art exhibition.

Nazi Germany disapproved of contemporary German art movements such as Expressionism and Dada and on July 19, 1937 it opened the travelling exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art, to inflame public opinion against modernity and Judaism. The cover the 1937 guide book (illustration right) features a Polynesian or other tribal art work, linking modern art with primitivism.