
Beyond Irrepresentability
Exploring Images from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust
Böhlau (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-3-412-53378-6 (ISBN)
Description
Despite the doubts about the representability of the Holocaust, thousands of works of art and visual artifacts were created by prisoners in Nazi camps and ghettos during and immediately after the Holocaust. Yet, both art historians and historians rarely dealt with them for decades. Because of their mostly figurative language, researchers and memory institutions often reduced such images to the status of spiritual and political resistance, praised their artistic quality, or consulted them as illustrations of "how it was". But these images do not speak for themselves, they require analysis. In this volume, 19 international scholars, curators, and educators explore the potential of analytical approaches to drawings, albums, paintings, and prints created by victims and witnesses of the Nazi regime. They consolidate current approaches to these multifaceted objects and take the images seriously as images.
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Series
Edition
1. Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Köln
Germany
Illustrations
102 mostly coloured images
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
752 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-412-53378-6 (9783412533786)
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Verena Krieger | Ella Falldorf
Beyond Irrepresentability
Exploring Images from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust
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12/2025
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Böhlau
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Persons
Editor
Verena Krieger hält den Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Ella Falldorf ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Contributions
ISNI: 0000 0003 8380 2297
Ella Falldorf ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Verena Krieger hält den Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Series Editor
Verena Krieger hält den Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.