{"product_id":"museum-of-degenerates-portraits-of-the-american-grotesque-9781682193877","title":"Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eli Valley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OR Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OR Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Nonfiction - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuseum of Degenerates\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eMAD\u003c\/em\u003e comics in the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eValley'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OR Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45412673716375,"sku":"9781682193877","price":2377.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781682193877.webp?v=1768583983","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/museum-of-degenerates-portraits-of-the-american-grotesque-9781682193877","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}