MUSEUM OF DEGENERATES: PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN GROTESQUE
An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism.
Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America's most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley's extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public debate and action.
In these pages, Valley tips a homburg to German expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix who featured in "The Exhibition of Degenerate Art," a 1937 Munich show that sought to ridicule the work of artists critical of Hitler's fascist regime. In an aesthetic that is strikingly original, Valley also draws on early twentieth-century American Yiddish cartoons and the work of artists who created the helter-skelter exuberance of MAD comics in the 1950s.
Valley's own art, accompanied here by extensive descriptions of its genesis and context, is a howl of protest against the political, cultural and media elites driving America into an authoritarian abyss. Here is anger, pure and hot, expressed in exquisite detail and, often, disturbingly funny.
| Writers | Eli Valley |
|---|---|
| Artiesten | Eli Valley |
| Product Vorm | Trade Paperback |
| Taal | Engels |
| Release Date | 12-02-2025 |
| Streepjescode | 9781682193877 |
| Publisher | OR Books |
| Website productcategorie | This months Comics Preorders en All Recent Preorders |