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This is a collaged landscape comprising numerous pages of text ripped from books: one in English, one in Yiddish, then burned and arranged to overlap to suggest an area of ‘land’. The first Nazi book burnings took place in 1933, in which any literature deemed unsuitable or against Nazi ideals was burnt in ceremonial displays of national ‘cleansing’. Dresner directly references this attack on Jewish culture by including passages of Yiddish text, also alluding to those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The subject of loss is underlined by the title ‘The Ghost Town’, which suggests both an empty and demolished place. The torn pages can represent the crumbling buildings once occupied by Jewish people. The faded and burnt pages lend the image a sepia quality, much like an old photograph.
Title
The Ghost Town
Date
1982
Medium
collage on paper
Measurements
H 53 x W 53 cm
Accession number
1993-29
Acquisition method
presented by the artist, 1993
Work type
Mixed media & collage
