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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory (Hardcover)
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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory (Hardcover)
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A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular
and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon
(1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist
artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784
paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major
art-historical study sheds new light on the remarkable combination
of image, text, and music, revealing Salomon's wealth of references
to cinema, opera, Berlin cabaret, and the painter's
self-consciously deployed modernist engagements with artists such
as Van Gogh, Munch, and Kollwitz. Additionally, Griselda Pollock
draws attention to affinities in Salomon's work with that of others
who shared her experience of statelessness and menaced exile in
Nazi-dominated Europe, including Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, and
Walter Benjamin. Confronting new evidence for the extremity of the
young artist's last months, Pollock examines this significant work
for its equally profound testimony to the crimes of the everyday:
the sexual abuse of women in their own families. Seeking to
reconcile the grandeur of this project's sweep of a violent history
with its unique testimony to the anguish of women, Pollock
challenges the prevailing interpretations of Salomon's paintings as
a kind of visual autobiography by threading into her detailed and
illuminating visual analyses of the painter's philosophical
art-making a dynamic range of insights from feminist and Jewish
studies of modern subjectivity, story-telling, memory work, and
historical trauma.
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