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Jews and American Comics: The New GenerationsA traveling exhibition based on work done by Brown University students, open February 8th through June 14th Jews and American Comics: The New Generations is a traveling exhibition based on work done by Brown University students in conjunction with the course, “Jewish Americans: Film and Comics,” taught by Paul Buhle, a lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University. The exhibition presents images of recent comic book art. It considers the ways the artists address social issues — violence, prejudice, the threat of war, environmental devastation, and media manipulation — as well as issues of individual and collective identity, and Jewish history. Artists in this show include Art Spiegelman, Miriam Katin, Eric Drooker, Sharon Rudahl, and James Sturm. The exhibit was curated by John Hay Library curator Rosemary Cullen, public humanities graduate student Leah Nahmias and the staff of the John Nicholas Brown Center, of Brown University. Paul Buhle is a lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University and author or editor of more than 30 books on radicalism, labor, and popular culture, including five volumes on the films of the Hollywood blacklistees. Buhle has co-edited several books, including A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, Wobblies: A Graphic History and The New Left Revisited, which was the winner of an American Library Association's Choice Academic Book Award. He has written for The Nation, Times Higher Education Supplement, The Guardian, Tikkun, and the Journal of American History, among others. His newest book, Jews and American Comics, tells us how the “people of the book” became the people of the comic book. |
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