Verena Krieger – författare

Seit den 1960er Jahren erfährt Collage/Montage eine anhaltende Konjunktur. Unter immer wieder veränderten kulturellen, politischen und medientechnologischen Bedingungen eignet man sich das künstlerische Prinzip des Zerschneidens und Zusammenfügens vorgefundenen Materials neu an, das die Avantgarden im frühen 20. Jahrhundert entwickelt haben. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen, wie dieses ästhetische Prinzip seit den 1960er Jahren in Kunst, Film und Literatur transformiert, erweitert und umgedeutet wird. Das Augenmerk richtet sich auf die neuen Formen, Verfahren und Semantisierungen von Collage/Montage, das Spannungsfeld zwischen Digitalisierung und materialbezogener Bricolage sowie die Erweiterung der mit Collage/Montage verbundenen gesellschaftspolitischen Impulse um genderkritische, geschichtskulturelle und sozialutopische Perspektiven.

Despite the doubts about the representability of the Holocaust, thousands of works of art and visual artifacts were created by prisoners in Nazi camps and ghettos during and immediately after the Holocaust. Yet, both art historians and historians rarely dealt with them for decades. Because of their mostly figurative language, researchers and memory institutions often reduced such images to the status of spiritual and political resistance, praised their artistic quality, or consulted them as illustrations of "how it was". But these images do not speak for themselves, they require analysis. In this volume, 19 international scholars, curators, and educators explore the potential of analytical approaches to drawings, albums, paintings, and prints created by victims and witnesses of the Nazi regime. They consolidate current approaches to these multifaceted objects and take the images seriously as images.

Despite the doubts about the representability of the Holocaust, thousands of works of art and visual artifacts were created by prisoners in Nazi camps and ghettos during and immediately after the Holocaust. Yet, both art historians and historians rarely dealt with them for decades. Because of their mostly figurative language, researchers and memory institutions often reduced such images to the status of spiritual and political resistance, praised their artistic quality, or consulted them as illustrations of "e;how it was"e;. But these images do not speak for themselves, they require analysis. In this volume, 19 international scholars, curators, and educators explore the potential of analytical approaches to drawings, albums, paintings, and prints created by victims and witnesses of the Nazi regime. They consolidate current approaches to these multifaceted objects and take the images seriously as images.