Support HARAYA! Haraya is the Sinhala Inguage fortnightly paper of the Sri Lanka section of the Fourth International. It Is the only paper in Sri Lanka which campaigns consistently • AGAINST the World Bank and IMF • AMONGST the Sinhala majority to stop the war against the Tamils • AGAINST the austerity measures of the Chandrika government. Haraya is facing financial problems, and seeking donations from Britain. Cheques, payable to NSSP UK and sent to PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU, marked Haraya Fund. Simon Kennedy reviews the Hayward Gallery's exhibition Art and WAS hand the Hayward Gallery you coold be forginea for believing that the 1930% in Germany and the Soviet Union were tition between painters parodies of horny-handed content of the two ideolomore bellicose and mystiimperial evocations - they The Narle cekboss sonudes of Adolf Ziegler, clean, healthy and whole. Some Done magens come ink in micadows contemplating the aesthetic wonders of the Aryan race. cord output of tractor parts The male youth of Ger. many were isleaded foe They are pictured passively. as if awaiting battle orders ready dedicated to the The soullessness of these The cult of youth and health is still very then hynes Nevertheless, they were tion is its debunking of the liberal myth, current in impossible under totalitar. would be very little art in democracy is taken to mean as can tel whether the "art of the dictafors" was good art. Stalin's party-line propaganda painting Voting so expel the Kulak sloganising sketch - I can't say was too impressed with Industrial worker with collec. crudity and obviousness the masses - a conscious atRivoluzione Fascista is arresting and impressive. The chanstanding, if naive, way of brisging palacca lo de poc striking immediacy. These was about mass communica.
This is chanse in the Spanish section. Picasso country - "an instrument of trous graphics and photography in the process.
Sculpture is most noticeable because it is essentially public. Goebbels said "the artist creates not for artists but for people. And we shall be concerned to see that henceforth the people is called upon to be the judge of art."
Although many liberal art commentators have been eager to dismiss this epi. sode as temporary pathology, a collective nightmare of capitalist progress that has passed forever, the artis. tie themes of Nazism are perfectly in line with the mainstream of European culture.
The cult of youth and health is still very much with us - Baywatch is the most watched programme in the world. The martial mantle of ancient Rome has USA's imperious bald eagle.
w natever the propagandistic posturing of Hitler and mussount their an was informed by the prevailing sayics or the moment Along with the work of Vichy there is a conspicuous ahsence of the work of Hitler himself. It so happens that the biggest collec. tion of his work in in Britain - at Longleat, collected by the father of the present Marquess of Bath.
This is the first official exhibition of the art of the Third Reich - clearly the organisers do not think we are not yet ready for the work of the Führer himself.
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