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Old 01-17-2016, 07:34 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8 View Post
This ebook is accessed from the Internet Archive.

You may have a tendency to think "public domain" when you hear "Internet Archive." I certainly do. But, the IA also has an enormous number of free ebooks which have a current, valid copyright.

The problem is finding the good ones--the IA does not even have a rating system for their ebooks, as far as I'm aware. Thankfully, I became aware of this gem below from it being mentioned on another website.

The URL that I will give below is that of the IA webpage for the ebook. Besides the color pdf, they will offer Kindle mobi and ePub, among other, less popular, formats. I have downloaded and checked the mobi and ePub versions and they are in such bad shape that they are unusable (garbled, loaded with digital artifacts, etc.). The color pdf turns out nice, so I recommend that you download it.

Everyone is different, but personally I find this book fascinating.

Title: Degenerate art : the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany.
Format: Pdf.
Author(s): Stephanie Barron; Peter W. Guenther.
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Pages: 423.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.8 (4) at Amazon; 4.5 (34) at GoodReads.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at Amazon if available there: $21.15 (used--"good").
Book Description (From Google Books):
Examines the 1937 Nazi-arranged exhibition "Degenerate Art," comprised of 650 avante-garde artworks stripped from German museums. Includes essays, a diagrammed catalogue of the exhibition, artist biographies, a translated facsimile of the exhibition guide, and other reference resources, accompanied by reprints of the artworks and photos of the exhibition itself.
Comments: This is the 1991 edition. I think that this ebook has been provided by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which is credited as one of the publishers of the book.
URL: https://archive.org/details/degenerateartfa00barr.
Thank you for both the post (I find this subject fascinating, too) and for vetting the quality of the popular e-book formats.
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