Bad Holocaust Art

Biber, K

Bad Holocaust Art

Biber, K

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Publisher:: Legal intersections Research Centre
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Law.Text.Culture, 2009, 13 pp. 226 - 259
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Biber, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2189-3157	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Law.Text.Culture, 2009, 13 pp. 226 - 259	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1322-9060	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10462
dc.description.abstract	In 2002 the Jewish Museum in New York exhibited Mirroring Evil, in which contemporary artists represented the Holocaust. Holocaust survivors demonstrated against the exhibition, holding placards in the street outside. An 81 year old survivor of Buchenwald, Isaac Leo Kram, carried a sign that read: `I was there. I testify: Genocide is not art! (Kershaw 2002). A sign at the entrance of the museum warned visitors that some might be upset by the exhibition. The New York press, typically supportive of the citys art institutions when attacked by critics, repeatedly questioned the Museums judgment in holding the exhibition. At the heart of the controversy was grave concern that some of the artworks were testing the limits of how the Holocaust could be represented and remembered.	en_US
dc.publisher	Legal intersections Research Centre	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Law.Text.Culture	en_US
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dc.title	Bad Holocaust Art	en_US
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Abstract:

In 2002 the Jewish Museum in New York exhibited Mirroring Evil, in which contemporary artists represented the Holocaust. Holocaust survivors demonstrated against the exhibition, holding placards in the street outside. An 81 year old survivor of Buchenwald, Isaac Leo Kram, carried a sign that read: `I was there. I testify: Genocide is not art! (Kershaw 2002). A sign at the entrance of the museum warned visitors that some might be upset by the exhibition. The New York press, typically supportive of the citys art institutions when attacked by critics, repeatedly questioned the Museums judgment in holding the exhibition. At the heart of the controversy was grave concern that some of the artworks were testing the limits of how the Holocaust could be represented and remembered.

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