“TikTok art history content has the potential to grow an audience rapidly because there is not this intimidation that you sometimes have with the more theoretically loaded sources.”
Consequently, Reiss has remained, for the most part, “one of the United States’ most influential artists and designers of the twentieth century…that you’ve never heard of.”
Elegant and exhaustively-researched, English outlines the rise of “psychiatric art” in Weimar-era Germany, tracking its influence and eventual clash with Hitler’s obsession with remolding the artistic character of Germany.