In 1937, the Nazi regime presented the exhibition Entartete Kunst (“Degenerate Art”).
The term was used to designate what was to be rejected: impure forms, resistant imaginaries, artists who escaped the established aesthetic and political order.

Nearly a century later, the word has lost none of its violence. It continues to circulate, sometimes under different names. Every era invents its own categories, exclusions, and norms of visibility. Every era decides which images are reassuring … more