Peter Chametzky

Peter Chametzky is Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina. His mother, the poet, writer, and translator Anne Halley (1928-2004) fled Nazi Germany in 1938, but the family was able to bring with it many objects that continue to act as representatives of that history, an idea he developed in relation to artworks in the book,

"Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art: Beckmann to Beuys," published by the University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520260429

His new book, "Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art," the "first book to examine multicultural visual art in Germany, discussing more than thirty contemporary artists and arguing for a cosmopolitan Germanness," was named runner-up in the art history category for the German Hans and Lea Grundig Prize (http://www.hans-und-lea-grundig.de/) and is due out from The MIT Press in September 2021.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/turks-jews-and-other-germans-contemporary-art