Presented By: Museum Studies Program
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust
Dr. Erica Lehrer - Professor, History and Sociology-Anthropology; Director, Curating and Public Scholarship Lab, Concordia University
Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.
Zoom webinar - please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-Sy-1p-TFaoBD7VbWgcMA
Zoom webinar - please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-Sy-1p-TFaoBD7VbWgcMA
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