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boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony

How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well,  For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance.  Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading

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lust for life

To shock the viewers into opening their eyes. The principle objective of Boris Lurie and his “No” art movement was to bring back into art the subject of real life, to free it from the slavery of ownership that had … Continue reading

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No! Art: confrontations on betrayal

It was at the expense of good manners.Its an alternate method to engage oneself with memory. The burbling graphic images resurfaced later in etchings, paintings and collages like blood clots moving through hardened arteries. Alternating between the jarring and the … Continue reading

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