Looking Nazis in the Face

[Dave Monroe]

>From Michael Kimmelman, "Jewish Museum Show Looks
Nazis in the Face and Creates a Fuss," New York Times,
January 29th, 2002 ...

wo months before it will open, a contemporary art
exhibition that uses Nazi imagery and was organized by
the Jewish Museum is making some tempers boil.
Holocaust survivors and their families have pronounced
the show vulgar and repugnant, while Abraham H.
Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation
League, recently told a reporter that such an
exhibition was at least premature while survivors were
still alive who might be offended.

"Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art" will feature
13 artists: American, European and Israeli; four of
them Jewish; mostly in their late 30's and 40's. The
show's idea, the museum says, is to bring together
works using images of Nazis and the Holocaust that
focus not on the victims but on the perpetrators for a
change. In so doing, the art is supposed to show how
evil has been trivialized and fetishized and how
artists are using parody and provocation to try to
keep the Nazi past alive as an issue for new
generations like their own....

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/arts/29NOTE.html?todaysheadlines

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