Summer Reading at the Library!

logo

Join us for our annual summer reading program for children, teens and adults.  This year's theme is Color Your World.

Children & Teens:  Starting on June 2nd, visit the Children's Room to register and receive a reading log.

Adults:  Starting on June 2nd, sign up in person at the Reference Desk to receive a packet.  Click here for the Nonfiction and Fiction reading lists relating to the theme.

 

 

 

Nazi War on Modern Art

Program Type:

Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will close on September 8, 2025 @ 3:00pm.

Event Details

After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the new government commenced its conservative cultural policy with breathtaking rapidity, closing the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, firing curators sympathetic to modern art from state museums, and organizing anti-modern exhibitions culminating in 'Degenerate Art" of 1937, which held modern art up to ridicule, while promoting a new, bombastic form of idealistic classicism that became the officially favored style of the regime.

Presented by:  Dr. Dennis Raverty is an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University where he teaches 19th and 20th-century art history, the art of West Africa, the diaspora and African American art, as well as the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe. An award-winning teacher, Raverty lives in New York City, and is currently co-authoring a book on American illustration with Dennis Dittrich, former president of the Society of Illustrators.

Register for this event