How did a newly landed Polish Jewish artist transform his brush and pen into powerful anti-Nazi propaganda weapons in the years and months leading into and throughout World War II? In conjunction with the Fairfield University Art Museum’s special exhibition “Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights” (on view through December 16), we explore a reassessment of this satirical realist’s role in a wide spectrum of magazine covers and illustrations.
Philip I. Eliasoph, Professor of Art History & Visual Culture at Fairfield University, offers an overview of this acclaimed traveling exhibition, on loan from the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life at the University of California at Berkeley.
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The Art in Focus lecture series is co-sponsored by Stony Brook University Libraries and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. Talks are free, but registration is required. Made possible by support from the John H. Marbuger III Fund of Stony Brook University.