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The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,116
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The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (Hardcover): Samantha Baskind

The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture (Hardcover)

Samantha Baskind

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On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel Mila 18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist, and Rod Serling’s teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as well as accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.

General

Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Samantha Baskind
Dimensions: 241 x 191 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-07870-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > History > General
LSN: 0-271-07870-7
Barcode: 9780271078700

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