VISUAL CULTURE

trends & styles chapter 4
Heroic Realism:
How to communicate political power

> Hitler & Second World War
> Stalin & The Great Purge
> Graphic design: Heroic realism in propaganda
> Art: 'entartete Kunst' (degenerate art)
> Architecture: classical & heroic
> Heroic realism in previous times:
The Bronze Heads of Ile-Ife

Heroic realism - Germany

Heroic realism - Soviet Union

Heroic realism - UK - USA

Degenerate art - München, 1937
 

Olympic Stadion - Berlin, 1936

Berlin, Flughafen Tempelhof, 1923

Heroic realism in previous times - Nigeria (14-15th century)