Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius is an independent art historian based in Berlin.
"'This is the first discursive presentation of German art, from the
immediate postwar years to the present, dealing with the suffering
of the Jews during the Holocaust. Hoffmann-Curtius examines the
meaning, form, and sources of images along with their creators'
intent and the occasions on which the work was presented. . . . All
of it testifies to German awareness of the horror of genocidal
annihilation of the Jewish people under Hitler and his henchmen.
The hitherto largely ignored contribution by German artists
includes graphic paintings and etchings depicting the sufferings of
the Jews during World War II. . . . A raw reminder of history,
Judenmord makes the reader a visceral participant in the
horror of the Holocaust. The discussion is supported by meticulous
documentation, notes, and 232 images (206 in color). . . .
Recommended."-- "Choice"
"A revelation. . . . Hoffmann-Curtius trains her perceptive eye on
images that take the 'Judenmord'--her preferred term for the mass
murder of Jews that she leaves untranslated--as their subject.
Imbibing the lessons of earlier encyclopedic studies that attempted
to contain the chaos of images and narratives into a collective
experience, Hoffmann-Curtius treats the images that constituted the
postwar culture industry in which the mass murder of Jews was
brought into collective consciousness in Germany one at a time. . .
. With its nonhierarchical and wide-ranging image bank,
Judenmord is primarily a study of the multidetermined
psychology of perception, representation, reception, and memory of
genocide. . . . [A] startling and sensitive volume."--
"H-Judaic"
"Hoffman-Curtius's excellent and informative new book
Judenmord enters directly into this field of debate by
expanding the art-historical frame of reference as well as exposing
a more complex artistic response to genocide than scholars have
previously assumed. . . . We have long waited for a more
comprehensive source that lays out the history of postwar German
art in relation to the Holocaust. This book achieves that very
goal. It is a satisfying contribution that helps us decenter the
market-driven narrative (and one must say chiefly driven from the
United States) of what constitutes worthy subjects of art in
post-war art history. . . . The dynamic between social silence and
individual artistic response guides the text as a whole, making for
a clear and unified work."--Paul B. Jaskot "Art History"
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