Szyk resources EXAMINE THIS ARTWORK Ink and Blood, 1944 Detail [USHMM #94613/Gift of Alexandra and Joseph Braciejowski]	MORE Szyk
Szyk resources Viewing Activity These pages are intended to help you interpret Arthur Szyk’s artwork. The questions highlight the exhibition’s three sections and prompt you to examine a particular work of art in each.   Szyk resources Exhibition Catalog   The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk by Steven Luckert, exhibition curator United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Published to accompany the Museum’s new exhibition, this intriguing volume includes 136 pages of vivid, full color reproductions drawn from private and public collectors around the world, historical photographs, and detailed text. Arthur Szyk’s remarkable personal and artistic journey is examined, as is his development as a gifted illustrator, extraordinary caricaturist, commercial artist, Jewish patriot, and crusader. English Hardcover 0896047083 Members receive a 10% discount on all purchases from the Museum Shop. Table of contents Acknowledgements Credits Foreword Introduction one The Jewish Artist two Wartime Caricaturist three “Action—Not Pity” Notes Index Szyk resources Related Books United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library Arthur Szyk online bibliography [USHMM #N07545/ Joseph and Alexandra Braciejowski] Arthur Szyk. Polish-born Jewish artist Arthur Szyk crafted book illustrations and illuminations imbued with rich detail, artistic genius, and personal fervor. From the religious to the secular and the political, Arthur Szyk's works reveal the sensitivity and passion of a man committed to justice and to humanity. This bibliography was compiled by the Museum's Library to document the range of Szyk's artistry, and to guide the reader to books by and about Szyk and other political cartoonists. It lists his original works; books he illustrated; exhibitions, catalogs, and collections of his art; sources for news and commentary about Szyk; and studies of other World War II-era political cartoons and caricatures. See the bibliography... Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear Among the Featured items in the Museum's Library Before Dr. Seuss was Dr. Seuss, he was Theodor Giesel, and before he achieved tremendous fame for his unconventional children's books, he drew unconventional political cartoons for PM, a left-wing daily newspaper in New York. Minear's book, Dr. Seuss Goes to War, returns these cartoons, representing a little-known period in the creative life of Dr. Seuss, to the attention of an American public who knows him only for the Cat in the Hat and the Whos of Who-ville. English Szyk resources Web Links wartime and present-day cartoons and caricatures University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library presentation Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ Library of Congress online exhibition Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/dove.html sites featuring Szyk's work Library of Congress online exhibition Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/szyk/ Newseum online exhibition HOLOCAUST: The Untold Story (see 1943 Jewish Activists section) http://www.newseum.org/holocaust/index.htm The Arthur Szyk Society, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991, presents the artist's prolific body of works to broad and diverse audiences in the U.S. and worldwide. The Arthur Szyk Society http://www.szyk.org/ more about American response to the Holocaust Companion Web site to the PBS documentary "America and the Holocaust" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/index.html Bibliography "The United States and the Holocaust" http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/index.php?content=us_holocaust Szyk resources Public Program What impact did editorial cartoons have on American public opinion during World War II and what role did they play in creating awareness of the persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust? A panel of experts examines these and other questions during a discussion held in conjunction with the special exhibition The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk. Szyk resources Interview Around Town with Robert Aubry Davis WETA's "Around Town with Aubrey Davis" featured a discussion of The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk on April 18, 2002, shortly after the exhibition opened at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In this video segment, panelists Robert Aubry Davis, Bill Dunlap, Peter Fay, Jane Horwitz, and Joe Barber describe the Szyk exhibition and the art of caricature. Read the transcript http://www.weta.org/productions/ aroundtown/transcripts/at20020418.html
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