Beyond Irrepresentability: Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos and the Holocaust (Kunst - Geschichte - Gegenwart, 8)

ISBN 10: 3412533785 / ISBN 13: 9783412533786

Published by Bohlau Verlag Koln, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Irrepresentability: Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos and the Holocaust (Kunst - Geschichte - Gegenwart, 8)
• Publisher: Bohlau Verlag Koln
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3412533785
• ISBN 13: 9783412533786
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Despite the doubts about the representability of the Holocaust, thousands of images were created by prisoners in Nazi camps and ghettos during and immediately after the Holocaust. Yet, both art historians and historians rarely dealt with them for decades. Because of their mostly figurative language, researchers and memory institutions often relegated such images to the status of spiritual and political resistance, praised their artistic quality, or consulted them as illustrations of "how it was". But these images do not speak for themselves, they require analysis. In this volume, 19 international scholars, curators, and educators explore the potential of analytical approaches to drawings, albums, paintings, and prints created by victims and witnesses of the Nazi regime. They consolidate current approaches to these multifaceted objects and take the images seriously as images.