MIRRORING EVIL: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art

Kleeblatt, Norman L., Editor

ISBN 10: 0813529603 / ISBN 13: 9780813529608

Edité par The Jewish Museum/Rutgers University, New York, 2002

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The exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition at The Jewish Museum in New York in which 13 international artists who use Nazi imagery in their work explore the nature of evil. Catalogue essays discuss moral ambiguity in art, responsibility in exhibiting controversial art as well as the complicated issues of creating such artworks. First edition, first printing. 163 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 22 full color plates, numerous other black & white illustrations. Artists include Christine Borland, Mischa Kuball, Roee Rosen, Tom Sachs, and Piotr Uklanski. Also a forword by James E. Young, a bibliography and artists' biographies. Laid-in is a New Yorker cartoon by Art Spiegelman, titled "Duchamp Is Our Misfortune" from the March 25, 2002, New Yorker. Laminated card covers, showing Kuball's 1990 installation, "Hitler's Cabinet," on the front cover, show only a touch of bumping at front corners, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. A collectable copy. [Sorry, due to the catalogue's size and weight, we cannot accept priority orders or orders from outside the U.S.]. N° de réf. du vendeur 005314

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Titre : MIRRORING EVIL: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art

Éditeur : The Jewish Museum/Rutgers University, New York

Date d'édition : 2002

Reliure : Large Softcover

Etat : Very Good to Near Fine

Edition : First Edition.

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Synopsis :

Mirroring Evil This work is a companion piece to an exhibition of the same title, which is open at The Jewish Museum, New York, in March 2001. The display features work of 12 artists who use the unsettling imagery of the Nazi era and the Holocaust to explore the nature of evil.