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

• 1. Pictorial narrative as the art of crisis: purity, hybridity and representation2. Autobiographical motifs in the paintings of Felix Nussbaum3. Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?: a multimedia response to the crisis of German culture4. Charlotte Salomon: images, dialogues and silences5. Survival and memory: Arnold Daghani’s verbal and visual diaries6. Postwar pictorial narratives: from Daghani to Kitaj7. Painting under pressure: self-reflection and the breakthrough to new forms8. Breaking the silence: pictorial narratives of the Nazi period presented to modern audiences

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

• 1. Pictorial narrative as the art of crisis: purity, hybridity and representation2. Autobiographical motifs in the paintings of Felix Nussbaum3. Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?: a multimedia response to the crisis of German culture4. Charlotte Salomon: images, dialogues and silences5. Survival and memory: Arnold Daghani’s verbal and visual diaries6. Postwar pictorial narratives: from Daghani to Kitaj7. Painting under pressure: self-reflection and the breakthrough to new forms8. Breaking the silence: pictorial narratives of the Nazi period presented to modern audiences