WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.- In a review titled "The Adolph Hitler You Never Knew," Art in America contributing editor Lee Rosenbaum criticizes the exhibition "Prelude to a Nightmare: Art, Politics and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna 1906-1913," which runs from July 13 to October 27, 2002, at the Williams College Museum of Art. This exhibition includes some 230 artworks, photographs, posters and pamphlets, and it is a detailed, art-historical examination of the esthetics of fascism and of Hitler’s days as a frustrated artist. The show also examines the Viennese sources of the components of Nazism such as xenophobia and anti-Semitism, and the infamous swastika. In the article, Rosenbaum accuses curator Deborah Rothschild of assembling an "insidious" exhibition that "paints the young Hitler as a largely sympathetic, downtrodden figure." The exhibition "defines fascism as a kind of art movement," Rosenbaum writes, "hell-bent to beautify Europe with awesome architecture, uplifting art and buff blondes." Rosenbaum also complains about the "atmospherics" of the installation, which she describes as “Nazi-like”.