Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition)

Name: Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition)
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SKU: 9783775752169
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Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

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Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition) explores the profound impact of the 1933 German break in civilisation and the Shoah on the art of Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell. Both artists confront the Holocaust through radical expressions, initially through painting and avant-garde styles such as Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Their work employs collage and assembly techniques, with Vostell later advancing into happening and video art, while Lurie embraces writing. The book also highlights their meeting in New York in 1964, which forged a lifelong friendship.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for readers interested in modern art, the legacy of the Holocaust in culture, and avant-garde artistic movements of the 20th century.

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The art of Boris Lurie ( 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell ( 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by the break in civilisation 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.

Discover more in the bilingual edition of Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775752169

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 May 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 300 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Beate Reifenscheid
Text by Rudij Bergmann
Edited by Daniel Koep
Text by Tom Freudenheim
Text by Gertrude Stein
Text by Daniel Koep
Text by Dorothea Schöne
Text by Bram Groenteman
Text by Eckhart J. Gillen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1620g

Pages: 336

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

After surviving several labor and concentration camps, the Jewish artist BORIS LURIE (1924-2008) moved to New York in 1946. With often direct reference to the Shoah, Lurie commented on the society and consumer culture of his time.

The German artist WOLF VOSTELL (1932-1988) was a protagonist of the Fluxus movement and a pioneer of happening- and video art. Vostell confronted post-war European audiences with its recent past in a variety of ways.