Yad Vashem Collections - Library

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"The Holocaust marks the darkest period in what is now just within living memory, when a third of Europe’s Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime. During 2021 His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, commissioned seven artists to paint the portraits of a group of seven survivors of the Holocaust, who all sought refuge and made Britain their home. Each of the seven sitters has their own poignant story to tell and these portraits are a tribute to their passing generation and a testament to their extraordinary resilience and courage. This beautifully illustrated...

results.listIds.year : 2022

results.listIds.lang : English

results.listIds.localNumber : 2022-2407F

Francis Bacon and Nazi propaganda

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"British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Here, Martin Hammer presents him as a “painter of modern life,” whose concern was to distill the feelings associated with living through the rise of Fascism in the 1930s, World War II, the revelations of the Holocaust, and then the early Cold War period. Against a backdrop of changing attitudes toward wartime memories and a gradual resurgence of interest in the war, Hammer offers extensive evidence of Bacon’s use of prewar Nazi propaganda photography as a springboard for painting. By exploring some of Bacon’s...

results.listIds.author : Hammer, Martin

results.listIds.year : 2012

results.listIds.lang : English

results.listIds.localNumber : 2021-3612

Art, propaganda and aerial warfare in Britain during the Second World War

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"The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) were responsible for the production of some of the most iconic images of the Second World War. Despite its rich historical value, this collection has been poorly utilised by historians and hasn't been subjected to the levels of analysis afforded to other forms of wartime culture. This innovative study addresses this gap by bringing official war art into dialogue with the social, economic and military histories of the Second World War. Rebecca Searle explores the tensions between the documentarist and propagandistic roles of the WAAC in their representation of...

results.listIds.author : Searle, Rebecca

results.listIds.year : 2020

results.listIds.lang : English

results.listIds.localNumber : 2021-0651

The twentieth century German art exhibition

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"This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist Germany and the infamous Munich exhibition Degenerate Art. Provenance research into the catalogued exhibits has enabled a full reconstruction of the show for the first time: its contents and form, its contributors and their motivations, and its impact both in Britain and internationally. Presenting the research via six case-study exhibits, the book sheds new light on the exhibition and reveals it as one of the...

results.listIds.author : Wasensteiner, Lucy

results.listIds.year : 2019

results.listIds.lang : English

results.listIds.localNumber : 2020-0870