- Summary
- "US artist Boris Lurie bequeathed the world a radical oeuvre that attacked the bourgeois concept of art with images and words. Lurie unmistakably rejected all idealistic expectations of art, all types of aestheticism, and likewise the capitalist art market. Back in the late 1950s he turned his back on painting and adopted collaging instead. His preferred material: Pin-ups that he made into consumable objects. The most shocking art products of his efforts were the collages in which pornographic photos were juxtaposed to images of Nazi concentration camps. These bore testimony to the artist's experience of the linkage of domination, repression, and sexual degradation. The exhibition at Neues Museum approaches Boris Lurie the man through his art. Works by other artists (and they include people with whom Lurie was never in contact) shed light on his approach. Contextualized in this way, Lurie's oeuvre emerges as a psychogram of his day, an undertaking that called for people to protest and object to the injustices of society."-- Publisher.
- Other Title
- Works. Selections.
- Variant Title
- Anti-pop
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Nürnberg : Verlag für Moderne Kunst, [2017]
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Foreword / Gertrude Stein
Preface / Eva Kraus
Boris Lurie: our only master is truth / Eckhart Gillen
Illustrations with texts by Claudia Marquardt and Thomas Heyden
Boris Lurie: tarrying with the negative, the Holocaust and the problem of visual representation / Peter Weibel
Around Lurie / Thomas Heyden
List of exhibited works
Biography.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lurie, Boris, 1924-2008.
Heyden, Thomas, 1961- editor.
Kliege, Melitta, 1962- editor.
Kraus, Eva, 1971- editor.
Neues Museum (Nuremberg, Germany), host institution, issuing body.
- Notes
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Catalog of an exhibition held at Neues Museum--Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg, March 17-June 18, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Gertrude Stein -- Preface / Eva Kraus -- Boris Lurie: our only master is truth / Eckhart Gillen -- Illustrations with texts by Claudia Marquardt and Thomas Heyden -- Boris Lurie: tarrying with the negative, the Holocaust and the problem of visual representation / Peter Weibel -- Around Lurie / Thomas Heyden -- List of exhibited works -- Biography.
Parallel texts in German and English.
