Through an Artist's Eyes

Willa M. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi. She has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem’s Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, and the 2012–13 Cummings Foundation Fellow at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementPrefaceIntroductionChapter One. “I Fought National Cannibalism with . . . Art”: Karl Schwesig, the Ethos of Düsseldorf, and the Weight of Stigmatization, 1933-1939Chapter Two. “The Inferno or Hell of [Camp] Saint-Cyprien,” 1939-1940Chapter Three. “Many of These Unfortunate People Are Intellectuals”: Art, Culture, Illness and Death at Camp GursChapter Four. “They Are All Special Cases of Ill and Old People Who Need Better Care Than the Ordinary Intern”: Opening Our Eyes to Camp NoéChapter Five. “Cruelty . . . That Dehumanizes Its Victims Before It Destroys Them”: The Violence of Racialization