| Description |
xv, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., Sept. 27-Dec. 8, 2002, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., Jan. 7-Feb. 14, 2003, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 7-June 15, 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Complexity and contradiction : an introduction to The last expression / Corinne Granof and David Mickenberg -- Auschwitz and the German camp system / Henry Friedlander -- The inmate world : life and death in Auschwitz / Charles W. Sydnor, Jr. -- Relics of the force field of art : drawings made in concentration camps / Detlef Hoffmann -- Artistic strategies for survival and resistance / Brigitte Schoch-Joswig -- The drawings of Bachrach-Barée : chronology of a death march / Glenn Sujo -- Art in the context of Auschwitz / Sybil Milton -- Camp correspondence : the decorated letters of Auschwitz-Birkenau inmates / Jolanta Kupiec -- Illustrated fairy tales of Auschwitz / Jadwiga Kulasza -- Women artists in the camps/depictions of women / Pnina Rosenberg -- The Auschwitz sketchbook / Karsten Uhl -- Theatrical performance in Auschwitz : a concert of words / Rebecca Rovit -- "We all feel this music is infernal..." : music on command in Auschwitz / Guido Fackler -- On the postwar history of the Auschwitz site and its symbolism / Jonathan Huener -- The collections of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum / Irena Szymanska -- Power and fragility : the history of the art collection at Yad Vashem / Yehudit Inbar. |
| Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- In art -- Exhibitions.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
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Internment camp inmates as artists -- Europe -- Exhibitions.
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Nazi concentration camp inmates as artists -- Europe -- Exhibitions.
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Internment camp inmates as artists. |
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Europe. |
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Art, European -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, European. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Mickenberg, David, 1954-
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Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
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Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
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Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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| ISBN |
0810115484 alkaline paper |
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9780810115484 alkaline paper |
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