Hitler and Art
Re Suzanne Muchnic’s Feb. 9 cover story “The Art That Hitler Hated”: Hitler lives. It is 1991 and he is setting the agenda for a major L.A. art show.
The only claim to fame or legitimacy this art has is that Hitler hated it. Beyond that it is just ugly. Should we honor something just because he hated it?
As long as we allow his kind to set our moral, cultural and political agendas, whether positively or negatively, we will remain in his league.
Had he been rational he would have simply ignored this avant-garde ugliness. Instead he irrationally suppressed it. Let us do what he would not: Ignore it.
JOEL SOLLIDAY
Adjunct Professor, Humanities
Pepperdine University
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