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Arts of witness or Awkward objects? Vernacular art as a source base for ‘bystander’ Holocaust memory in Poland

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Based on preliminary research, we ask what insights can be gleaned about Polish Holocaust memory and testimony by examining the prolific art made by Polish ‘folk’ artists, via a range of disciplinary approaches. What can art history, visual culture studies, oral history, anthropology, memory studies, and museum studies tell us about the motivations, functions, and ethical implications of such works? Can they be considered acts of witness? Broadly, our text considers the status of ‘art naïve’ in the contexts of Holocaust representation, ethnographic museology, and bystander testimony.

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25(3)

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300-328

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Link to article (paywalled), Arts of witness or Awkward objects? Vernacular art as a source base for ‘bystander’ Holocaust memory in Poland

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Lehrer, Erica, Sendyka, Roma Arts of witness or Awkward objects? Vernacular art as a source base for ‘bystander’ Holocaust memory in Poland. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. 2019: 300-328.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/17504902.2019.1567667