{"id":3714,"date":"2022-04-08T22:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2024-01-08T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T21:12:01","slug":"envisioning-evil-the-nazi-drawings-by-mauricio-lasansky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/envisioning-evil-the-nazi-drawings-by-mauricio-lasansky\/","title":{"rendered":"Envisioning Evil: \u201cThe Nazi Drawings\u201d by Mauricio Lasansky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visitors facing the entrance to Envisioning Evil: \u201cThe Nazi Drawings\u201d by Mauricio Lasansky are offered only one glimpse of what they can expect if they choose to enter: a decorated Nazi officer raises his arm in a Hitler salute while blood-like drops fall from his wrist and smear the page. On his head is a terrifying bestial skull that appears both fixed and projected on the man\u2019s scalp. A close look reveals smudges, partial erasures, hard pencil strokes, and tears to the paper. This work is steeped in rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Click here to read the rest of this exhibit review at caa.reviews<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of the exhibition “Envisioning Evil: ‘The Nazi Drawings’ by Mauricio Lasansky” installed in Gallery 262, Gallery 275, and Gallery 276 at Minneapolis Institute of Art. Exhibition on view at Mia October 16, 2021 – June 26, 2022. (Image via Minneapolis Institute of Art<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mauricio Lasansky, No. 5, 1961, \u201cThe Nazi Drawings,” Levitt Foundation \u00a9 Lasansky Corporation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mauricio Lasansky, No. 11, 1961-66, \u201cThe Nazi Drawings,” Levitt Foundation \u00a9 Lasansky Corporation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mauricio Lasansky, No. 15, 1961-66, \u201cThe Nazi Drawings,” Levitt Foundation \u00a9 Lasansky Corporation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sheer Ganor<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. A historian of German-speaking Jewry and modern Germany, her work focuses on the nexus of forced migration, memory, and cultural identities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visitors facing the entrance to Envisioning Evil: \u201cThe Nazi Drawings\u201d by Mauricio Lasansky are offered only one glimpse of what they can expect if they choose to enter: a decorated Nazi officer raises his arm in a Hitler salute while blood-like drops fall from his wrist and smear the page. On his head is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48170,96814],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-reviews","category-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}