1st Edition
Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani
1. Pictorial narrative as the art of crisis: purity, hybridity and representation
2. Autobiographical motifs in the paintings of Felix Nussbaum
3. Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?: a multimedia response to the crisis of German culture
4. Charlotte Salomon: images, dialogues and silences
5. Survival and memory: Arnold Daghani’s verbal and visual diaries
6. Postwar pictorial narratives: from Daghani to Kitaj
7. Painting under pressure: self-reflection and the breakthrough to new forms
8. Breaking the silence: pictorial narratives of the Nazi period presented to modern audiences
Biography
Edward Timms is Research Professor in History at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is best known for his book Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist, published in two volumes as Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna (1986) and The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika (2005).
Deborah Schultz is Research Fellow in the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. She is the author of Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue (2007) and co-editor with Edward Timms of Arnold Daghani’s Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor (2009).
'The strenght of this extended analysis lies in its subtle considerations of dialectics: between form and content, between word and image, between life and art.' - The Art Book
