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Symposium: The Holocaust Effect in Contemporary Art

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Can Any Art Truly Represent the Holocaust?

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Dora Apel explains the long-term cultural and artistic implications of the Holocaust.

Apel questions the authenticity of experience in her analysis of "primary" and "secondary" understandings of the Holocaust.
Does a Lego Auschwitz Trivialize the Holocaust?

02 min 44 sec

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Dora Apel recounts the controversy that arose from an artistic rendering of Lego concentration camps.

Although survivors consider it demeaning, Apel believes the Lego creation raises crucial questions about art and play.
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emmabear08

Posted: 09.27.10, 11:17 PM

i think this is good it reminds people about this time of great sorrow.. do you think the victims would like people to forget? history should be remembered.

levenj

Posted: 02.03.09, 02:39 PM

Thanks for Watching!

Thanks to the two earlier comments for watching all the way through a lot fo the presentation and by way of making it to the summary of the Mirroring Evil exhibition overview by Dora Appel. I do hope that you had the time to take in more of the other artists work. http://loveitallabove.blogspot.com/2...-good-day.html

adriennejohnson +

Posted: 02.03.09, 01:38 PM

I agree -- it's atrocious.

SBell

Posted: 02.03.09, 09:55 AM

Does this not disgust anyone? I understand how this could be construed as art by some, but it just seems to take a lack of consideration for those that endured this atrocity to a whole new level. Lego's? Seriously? I guess I just don't understand the reasons for going this route to create this form of "art".