Boaz Arad

These twelve interconnected essays probe the dense historical knots binding terror, power, and the aesthetic sublime, and trace transformations in art and critical theory in the aftermath of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 2nd edition)

This essay analyzes the controversial 2002 exhibition "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art" at the Jewish Museum in New York, in the context of the US-led so-called war on terror, as well as recent debates about the political and cultural instrumentalization of the Holocaust.