Language:
English
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Ars Judaica; the Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2015) 55-78
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Pictorial works
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Jewish ghettos Pictorial works
Abstract:
Discusses the use by modern artists of the photograph of the boy in the Warsaw ghetto standing with his hands up in the air which was taken from Stroop's report of 1943. Since 1956, when the image was included in Alain Resnais' film "Nuit et brouillard", the photograph has been used by many other artists. Notes three main contexts and purposes for which this iconic image has been used. Some artists (e.g. Yala Korwin, Muriel N. Helfman, Samuel Bak, and Rolanda T. Yekutiel) used this image as a symbol for the tragic fate of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Other artists (e.g. Judy Chicago and Renato Guttuso) universalized it as symbolizing the horrors of war, violence, and cruelty. Still others (e.g. Alan Schechner, and cartoonists Guy Morad and Moshik Lin) used it for political statements and purposes, e.g. in reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or the conflict between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Israeli government.
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