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Pamięć holocaustu w twórczości Josepha Beuysa
Joseph Beuys and the Memory of the Holocaust

Author(s): Roman Nieczyporowski
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Summary/Abstract: The memory of the Holocaust was one of essential problems in the post-war art of Europe. The social and political situation of post-war Germany caused the aspect of the memory of the Extermination had belonged and still is belonged to the most sensitive topics in the history of this nation. Nothing so strange, that references to Auschwitz we could find in the artistic work of one of the most important contemporary German artists – Joseph Beuys. A fact is, that this references has been noticed by few academics and critics only.

  • Issue Year: 24/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-99
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish