- Summary
- By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and three million books were seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of these objects-including paintings, sculpture, and Judaica-their rescue in the aftermath of the war, and their afterlives in museums and private collections and in our cultural understanding. In examining how this history affects the way we view these works, scholars discuss the moral and aesthetic implications of maintaining the association between the works and their place within the brutality of the Holocaust-or, conversely, the implications of ignoring this history. Afterlives offers a thought-provoking investigation of the unique ability of art and artifacts to bear witness to historical events. With rarely seen archival photographs and with contributions by the contemporary artists Maria Eichhorn, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez, and Lisa Oppenheim, this catalogue illuminates the study of a difficult and still-urgent subject, with many parallels to today's crises of art in war. Exhibition: Jewish Museum, New York, USA (opens August 2021).
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Alexander, M. Darsie, author.
- Published
- New York : Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
©2021
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
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Foreword / Claudia Gould
Donors and lenders to the exhibition
Room of the Martyrs, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Afterlives : the seizure, movement, and recovery of looted art / Darsie Alexander
Reconstructing culture / Sam Sackeroff
Architecture of dispossession / Mark Wasiuta
History of German art politics : from 1933 to 2019, told in ten exhibitions / Julia Voss
Collection and redistribution: the Allied collecting points in Germany
Offenbach Archival Depot
Munich Central Collecting Point
Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point
Recovered works and their histories
Artists' portfolios
Maria Eichhorn
Hadar Gad
Dor Guez
Lisa Oppenheim
Selected bibliography / Olivia Casa.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Sackeroff, Sam, author.
Voss, Julia, 1974- contributor.
Wasiuta, Mark, contributor.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
- Notes
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Claudia Gould -- Donors and lenders to the exhibition -- Room of the Martyrs, Jeu de Paume, Paris -- Afterlives : the seizure, movement, and recovery of looted art / Darsie Alexander -- Reconstructing culture / Sam Sackeroff -- Architecture of dispossession / Mark Wasiuta -- History of German art politics : from 1933 to 2019, told in ten exhibitions / Julia Voss -- Collection and redistribution: the Allied collecting points in Germany -- Offenbach Archival Depot -- Munich Central Collecting Point -- Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point -- Recovered works and their histories -- Artists' portfolios -- Maria Eichhorn -- Hadar Gad -- Dor Guez -- Lisa Oppenheim -- Selected bibliography / Olivia Casa.
