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Museum of Degenerates

By Eli Valley

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Museum of Degenerates

By Eli Valley

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An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism. Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America's most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley's extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public debate and action. In these pages, Valley tips a homburg to German expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix who featured in "The Exhibition of Degenerate Art," a 1937 Munich show that sought to ridicule the work of artists critical of Hitler's fascist regime. In an aesthetic that is strikingly original, Valley also draws on early twentieth-century American Yiddish cartoons and the work of artists who created the helter-skelter exuberance of MAD comics in the 1950s. Valley's own art, accompanied here by extensive descriptions of its genesis and context, is a howl of protest against the political, cultural and media elites driving America into an authoritarian abyss. Here is anger, pure and hot, expressed in exquisite detail and, often, disturbingly funny.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2025-02-11
Publication Date:
2025-02-11
Publisher:
OR Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
168219387X
ISBN13:
9781682193877
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1018 g
Height:
251 cm
Width:
300 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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