This book accompanies the first major museum exhibition devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. During the Nazi regime in Germany, "degenerate art" was the official term for much of the most important modern art of the day. "Degenerate art" was defined by the Nazi regime as artwork that was not in line.

From Nordau to Hitler : "degeneration" and anti-modernism between the fin-de-siècle and the National Socialist takeover of power / Olaf Peters -- "Crazy at any price" : the pathologizing of modernism in the run-up to the "Entartete Kunst" exhibition in Munich in 1937 / Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau -- Plates I -- Defining National Socialist art : the first "Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung" in 1937 / Ines Schlenker -- Genesis, conception, and consequences : The "Entartete Kunst" exhibition in Munich in 1937 / Olaf Peters -- The "Entartete Kunst" exhibitions in Austria / Ernst Ploil -- Plates II -- "Violent vomiting over me" : Ernst Barlach and National Socialist cultural policy / Karsten Müller -- Emil Nolde and the National Socialist dictatorship / Bernhard Fulda and Aya Soika -- "Degenerate art" on the screen / Karl Stamm -- Plates III -- Narrowed modernism : on the rehabilitation of "degenerate art" in postwar Germany / Ruth Heftrig -- From Lucerne to Washington, DC : "degenerate art" and the question of restitution / Jonathan Petropoulos -- Checklist.