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Hitler’s war on “degenerate art”

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What Prince Horn Thought of Psychosis Art?

There was a lot of psychosis expressed in this art, or at least what prince horn thought was psychosis aminits. Of course, it's hard for us to actually tell, because we don't really have the artists full accounts of what exactly they were depicting. But certainly, in many cases, they seemed to be expressing something about the nature of their condition. And he felt that there was more authenticity and more power some of his patient art work than there was in the professional artist's material at that moment.

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