MIRRORING EVIL: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art

Kleeblatt, Norman L., Editor

ISBN 10: 0813529603 / ISBN 13: 9780813529608

Published by The Jewish Museum/Rutgers University, New York, 2002

About this Item

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.]. Seller Inventory # 005314

Bibliographic Details

Title: MIRRORING EVIL: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art

Publisher: The Jewish Museum/Rutgers University, New York

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good to Near Fine

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art features the work by thirteen internationally recognized artists who use imagery from the Nazi era to explore the nature of evil. Their works are a radical departure from previous art about the Holocaust, which centered on tragic images of victims. Instead, these artists dare to invite the viewer into the world of the perpetrators. The viewer, therefore, faces an unsettling moral dilemma: How is one to react to these menacing and indicting images, drawn from a history that can never be forgotten? The artists represented in Mirroring Evil impel us to examine what these images of Nazism might mean in our lives today.

Essays in the catalogue explore themes of moral ambiguity in makers and viewers of art, institutional responsibility in exhibiting controversial artworks, and the complicated issues of representing or even imagining the perpetrators. Entries about the individual artworks discuss in greater depth the artistic, ethical, and historical complexity of the images that the artists dare to engage.

About the Author:

Norman L. Kleeblatt is the Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts at The Jewish Museum in New York. He has organized exhibitions such as John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family and Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities (accompanying catalogue from Rutgers University Press).