Title & Author:

After Auschwitz : responses to the Holocaust in contemporary art / edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen.

Publication:

Sunderland : Northern Centre for Contemporary Art ; London : Lund Humphries, 1995.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm

Series:

Lund Humphries

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the travelling exhibition 'After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in contemporary art'.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Royal Festival Hall Galleries, London, Feb. 26-April 17, 1995; Manchester City Art Gallery, May 13-July 2, 1995; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, July-Aug. 1995; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Sept. 9-Nov. 18, 1995; and Edinburgh City Art Centre, Dec. 2, 1995-Jan. 20, 1996; and also on the occasion of the exhibition "after Auschwitz: installations" held at the Imperial War Museum, London, Feb. 23-May 29, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (page 160).
A kind of survivor / George Steiner -- The Nazi Holocaust : its moral, historical and educational significance / Ronnie S. Landau -- The complexities of witnessing ; Art confronts the Holocaust / Ziva Amishai-Maisels -- Memory and counter-memory : towards a social aesthetic of holocaust memorials / James E. Young -- Fifty years on / Monica Bohm-Duchen -- Artists' statements -- List of works in exhibition.
Includes 1 ill. of Melvin Charney and artist's statement.

Summary:

The senseless horror of the Holocaust continues to send shockwaves through history. Few would question its profound influence on post-war philosophy, morality, theological and political thinking. Yet the impact of the Holocaust on the Fine Arts, and in particular on contemporary art, has still not received the attention it deserves. This new publication accompanies a pioneering touring exhibition. It comprises a series of illustrated essays by leading experts, addressing: the art produced by victims of the Holocaust during the Holocaust; the influence of the Holocaust on artists who were not camp inmates, working during the war and in the post-war period; Holocaust memorials and their significance; and the work of a younger generation of artists, many of them non-Jews, whose relationship to the Holocaust is more oblique.
Among the artists included are R.B. Kitaj, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Christian Boltanski, Melvin Charney, Shimon Attie, Zoran Music, Susanna Pieratzki, Mick Rooney and Nancy Spero. The works selected have in common a determination not to rely on over-used visual stereotypes, nor to indulge in nostalgia, morbidity or sentimentality. Aesthetically compelling, they force us to reassess a subject all too often dismissed as overworked, and to reconsider the nature and potential of artistic activity 'after Auschwitz', as the century nears its end.

ISBN:

085331666X paperback
9780853316664 paperback

Subject:

Jewish art Exhibitions.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art Exhibitions.
Jews in art Exhibitions.
Nazi concentration camps in art Exhibitions.
Art, British 20th century Exhibitions.
Art juif Expositions.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans l'art Expositions.
Juifs dans l'art Expositions.
Camps de concentration nazis dans l'art Expositions.
Art britannique 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, British.
Nazi concentration camps in art.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art.
Jewish art.
Jews in art.
Kunst.
Holocaust.
Art, Jewish Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Visual arts
Charney, Melvin

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bohm-Duchen, Monica, editor.
Bohm-Duchen, Monica
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England)
Royal Festival Hall (London, England)
Manchester City Art Gallery
Angel Row Gallery (Nottingham, England)
Edinburgh City Art Centre
Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89156
Call No.: ID N7417.6.A33; ID:95-B4579
Status: Available