"Envisioning Evil is an accompaniment to the exhibition of Mauricio Lasansky's The Nazi Drawings, thirty-three monumental drawings examining the horrors of the Holocaust, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2021"--
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"Envisioning Evil is an accompaniment to the exhibition of Mauricio Lasansky's The Nazi Drawings, thirty-three monumental drawings examining the horrors of the Holocaust, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2021"--
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New (remains sealed in publisher's wrap; upper front corner of wrap torn, light rubbing to corner) Black wraps w/ illustrated printing; back cover artist portrait. 160 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. Envisioning Evil accompanies the exhibition of The Nazi Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2021. Curator Rachel McGarry provides comprehensive biographical, cultural, and historical context for the artist and the creation of this series in three essays and an illustrated timeline. McGarry also traces Holocaust awareness before and after the 1961 Eichmann trial and examines the role of art, literature, and popular media in bringing the genocide into public discourse. Rabbi Barry D. Cytron, former chaplain and professor of religious studies at Macalester College, contributes an essay on the international religious response to revelations about Nazi crimes and their relation to Lasansky's art. --Amazon.
