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Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition)

Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

Beate Reifenscheid author Dorothea Schöne author Daniel Koep author Rudij Bergmann author Tom Freudenheim author Eckhart J Gillen author Bram Groenteman author Daniel Koep editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hatje Cantz

Published:12th May '22

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Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition) cover

The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by the break in civilization in Germany in 1933, which made the German genocide of German and European Jews (the Shoah) possible. Both artists make the Shoah the subject of their work in a radical way. They work - initially independently of one another - with the means of painting and during the 1950s they resort to the stylistic devices of the first avant-garde: Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism. They strategically employ collage and assembly techniques. Vostell later develops the subject further in the media of happening and video art while Lurie takes up writing. In 1964 the artists met in New York and entertained a lifelong friendship.

ISBN: 9783775752169

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1620g

336 pages