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Mirroring evil : Nazi imagery/recent art

Title
Mirroring evil : Nazi imagery/recent art / edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt.
Publication
New York : Jewish Museum ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Kleeblatt, Norman L.
  • Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Description
xviii, 164 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition opening at the Jewish Museum in New York in Mar., 2002.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161).
Contents
Foreword : Looking into the mirrors of evil / James E. Young -- The Nazi occupation of the white cube : transgressive images/moral ambiguity/contemporary art / Norman L. Kleebatt -- Acts of impersonation : barbaric spaces as theater / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- Childhood, art, and evil / Ellen Handler Spitz -- "Avant-garde and kitsch" revisited : on the ethics of representation / Lisa Saltzman -- Playing the Holocaust / Ernst van Alphen -- Playing it safe? The display of transgressive art in the museum / Reesa Greenberg -- Keeping one's hands clean : six commissioned portraits of a perpetrator : Christine Borland's L'homme double, 1997 -- Male fantasies of Hitler : confusing gender and identity : Roee Rosen's Live and die as Eva Braun, 1995 -- Transforming images into symbols : Mischa Kuball's Hitler's cabinet, 1990 -- The conflation of good and evil : Piotr Uklański's The Nazis, 1998 -- A feminist rejoinder to Uklański's The Nazis : Elke Krystufek's Economical love series, 1998 -- Impersonating the victim : consorting with history : Alan Schechner's Barcode to concentration camp morph, 1994, and It's the real thing--self-portrait at Buchenwald, 1993 -- Impossible bedfellows : Adolf Hitler and Marcel Duchamp : Rudolf Herz's Zugzwang, 1995 -- The villain speaks the victim's language : Boaz Arad's Safam, 2000, and Marcel Marcel, 2000 -- Fascinating fascism : then or now? Maciej Toporowicz's Eternity #14, 1991 -- Mirrors of innocence and violence : Alain Séchas's Enfants gâtés, 1997 -- Toying with terror : Zbigniew Libera's LEGO concentration camp set, 1996 -- Fashioning terror : Tom Sachs's Giftgas giftset, 1998, and Prada Deathcamp, 1998 -- Staging depravity / Mat Collishaw's Burnt almonds (Gustav and Helga), 2000.
Call Number
JQF 02-1848
ISBN
  • 081352959X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813529603 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
00068345
OCLC
45575645
Title
Mirroring evil : Nazi imagery/recent art / edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt.
Imprint
New York : Jewish Museum ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161).
Added Author
Kleeblatt, Norman L.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Research Call Number
JQF 02-1848
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