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Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude
Artist/Author: Nigel Spivey | Reference: P3595 | ISBN: 978-0520230224 | Type: Publication

Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West?

art history Auschwitz body Christ Christianity Crucifixion Edvard Munch endurance history holocaust Jesus Massacre of the Innocents pain Rembrandt representation Sebastian Vincent van Gogh visual art

Genesi—from the museum of sleep programme
Reference: P3515 | Type: Publication

Programme of the performance which takes the first book of the Old Testament as its inspiration.

Adam Auschwitz Bible Brothers Quay Chiara Guidi children Claudia Castellucci Europe Eve holocaust Italy Lilith Lucifer Madame Curie mastectomy Romeo Castellucci Scott Gibbons theatre

Drawing Life programme
Reference: P3182 | Type: Publication

Programme for a multi-media composition, based on the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Featuring poems and drawings by Jewish children imprisoned in Terezin, composer Jocelyn Pook draws inspiration from the children’s creative spirit.

Auschwitz concentration camp Czechoslovakia drawings Emma Bernard history holocaust performance poetry resistance Sophie Solomon theatre World War II

The Art of Memory
Artist/Author: Annie E. Coombes | Reference: A0382 | Type: Article

Third text in anthology.

Auschwitz Diana Marquardt exhibition Galerie Nikki history holocaust identity Judaism memorial memory poetry Primo Levi

Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust
Artist/Author: James E. Young | Reference: P0046 | ISBN: 978-0253206138 | Type: Publication

Study of how historical memory and understanding are created in Holocaust diaries, memoirs, fiction, poetry, drama video testimony and memorials.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

archetype Auschwitz figurative language Germany history human rights Jewish language metaphor Nazi paradigm reality suffering testimony universal declaration of human rights victim World War II

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