Author: MERCKENS, W.J.,
Title: Ambachts en Nijverheidskunst in het Verleden, het Heden en den toekomst. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, De Schouw, [..], 1941. Small 4°., original printed and coloured decorative limp wrappers. 31pp. Many black/white illustrations on 15 photo plates out-of-text, featuring antique and 'modern' expressions of applied arts and crafts, bookbindings, bowls and jugs, ceramics and glass, woodcuts.. Dutch langiage contribution devoted to antique, present-day applied arts and crafts, in which the nazi ideology of aryan art is strongly promoted. Good copy. (some soiling to lower outer wrapper, some light wear to extremities of wrappers, a little bit dog-eared).

Keywords: applied arts crafts antiques modernity nazism ideology doctrine glass ceramics bookbindings jugs bowls third reich fascism culture germanic aryan dutch tradition traditional