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The Holocaust shadows every aspect of our culture and continues to inspire visual artists to passionate introspection and powerful expression. The fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was commemorated with an international traveling exhibition that is well documented in this somber but ennobling volume. In one of the six introductory essays, Ziva Amishai-Maisels analyzes the "complexities of witnessing" that empowered victims of the Holocaust to record their experiences in drawings, paintings, and sculpture. These stark and harrowing works depict life at its bleakest. The work of later generations of artists, in contrast, has an equally appalled but more contemplative aura of sorrow. Drawings and paintings have given way, in great part, to sculpture, a medium more suited to conveying the immensity of the horror. The artists shown include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Daisy Brand, Lena Liv, R. B. Kitaj, and Ellen Rothenberg. Donna Seam^Ian
