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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"The Angriest Political Cartoonist in America."
-New York Magazine
"The kind of political cartoons that get under your skin and stay there."
-PRINT Magazine
"Sumptuous"
-Bookforum
"This brave cartoonist is a public hero."
-CounterPunch
"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."
-The Daily Cartoonist
"Commitment and conviction saturate every illustration on every page . . . It is a funny, infuriating, astonishing, antagonizing, and alarming book that will win him few friends in the current moment but is exactly and precisely the kind of art that is needed to meet it."
-Comics Journal
"Valley wields his editorial pen effectively and devastatingly. We need brilliant, perceptive artists like him-and others-if we are to see these jackals for who they truly are."
-Progressive Magazine
"At a time when language fails, Valley refuses euphemism. He draws what others won't say, and dares you to look."
-Haaretz
PRAISE FOR ELI VALLEY'S DIASPORA BOY
"One of the most fascinating and darkly humorous books in living memory."
-Los Angeles Review of Books
"Explosively subversive."
-Kirkus
"His cartoons aren't only raucously funny. They constitute a searing indictment of the moral corruption of organized American Jewish life in our age."
-Peter Beinart
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
Full color illustrations throughout
Maße
Höhe: 300 mm
Breite: 251 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-68219-387-7 (9781682193877)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Eli Valley is the author of the critically-acclaimed Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel. His work has appeared in Jewish Currents, The New Republic, The Baffler, Gawker, and The Chapo Guide to Revolution (Atria, 2018).
