Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization and Racialization of Jews and Political Dissidents During the Third Reich (New Critical Viewpoints on Society) - Softcover

Johnson, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036762107X ISBN 13: 9780367621070

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book offers visual, social-historical analyses of paintings and drawings of the renowned German Communist artist Karl Schwesig. It follows the course of Schwesig’s internments, but is dedicated primarily to the plight of foreign Jewish persons and Christians (of Jewish descent) who were interned at Camps Saint-Cyprien, Gurs, and Noé in the French free zone. The artworks created by Schwesig provide the themes investigated in each chapter. The works describe the dehumanizing treatment that contributed to and characterized the racialization of foreign Jewish and “mixed-race” persons in France’s free zone and the attempted elimination of political dissidents. The volume includes color plates.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036762107X
• ISBN 13: 9780367621070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214