On view now, artist Yael Bartana’s 16mm film installation Entartete Kunst Lebt! (Degenerate Ar
On view now, artist Yael Bartana’s 16mm film installation Entartete Kunst Lebt! (Degenerate Art Lives!) is a statement about war built upon the work German painter and printmaker Otto Dix. Under the Nazis, Dix’s art was condemned as “degenerate,” a term used to describe modernism, which they considered Jewish and therefore perverse. Through stop-motion, Bartana brings Dix’s soldiers to life in her retelling, to rebuke the practice of censoring art as corrupt, asserting defiantly that “degenerate” art survives. -- source link
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