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Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art
Editor: Heike Roms | Reference: P2926 | ISBN: 978-0992903930 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. In Welsh and English.

National Museum Cardiff, 14 November 2015 –  20 March 2016.

Andrew Wilson archive childhood destruction in art documentation Gustav Metzger happenings Judith Bodor Kristine Stiles painting Penarth performance politics Ralph Ortiz sculpture Viennese Actionism World War II Yoko Ono

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Artist/Author: Hannah Arendt | Reference: P2842 | ISBN: 978-0156701532 | Type: Publication

Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.

20th century aristocracy Austria-Hungary Bolshevik bourgeoisie capitalism Catholic church class colonialism communism concentration camp criticism domination empire England equality Europe fascism Germany Hitler ideology imperialism intellectuals isolation Jewish mass mob nation nationalism nazism police politics propaganda purges race South Africa Soviet Russia SS Stalin terror theory World War I World War II

Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust
Artist/Author: James E. Young | Reference: P0046 | ISBN: 978-0253206138 | Type: Publication

Study of how historical memory and understanding are created in Holocaust diaries, memoirs, fiction, poetry, drama video testimony and memorials.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

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