The complexities of witnessing

Ziva Amishai-maisels*

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Abstract

Drawings of the camps done by inmates are not only witness reports. They involve choices of style and content and the influence of earlier artworks. A comparison of the ways inmates treated similar subjects reveals differences in approach between photographs and drawings, art in the camps and post-liberation art, the treatment of daily life versus that of death, and the depiction of the façade of reality as opposed to the truth behind it. The need to reveal the truth differentiates the Expressionistic works of some artists at Theresienstadt from those of other camps and raises new problems about inmate art.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)123-147
Number of pages25
JournalHolocaust and Genocide Studies
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

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