Modern art, or Entartete Kunst was censored under Third Reich due to its “Anti-German” and “Jewish Bolshevist” roots contrary to the Third Reich’s foundation of militarism, nationalism, eugenics and intolerances ranging from homosexuality to the developmentally delayed. Nazi propaganda poster art was cornerstone to marketing beliefs in social conservatism and anti-intellectualism.
Locally, there has been a movement against intellectualism and provocation of thought. Recently, the Fresno Neighborhood Thrift Mural Project was vandalized with blue paint, and rather than cease their efforts, the artists are working around the clock to repair and finish their mural characterizing big industry, oppression and apathy as they emerge around a baby. One resident likened it to “something you would see in East L.A.,” voicing concern about property value. Perchance Fresno is too provincial for such displays of public art.
Miller v. California (1973) outlined that among other things, obscenity was partially defined as “whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value” in relation to “contemporary community standards.”
Perhaps oppression, at minimum, is what the vandals aimed to promote and the artists aim to facilitate discussion via their heartfelt labors and own baby being loomed by vandalism.
Jared Martinez
Fresno
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