On June 23, 2011, in Milan, Italy, The Holocaust Art Looting and Restitution symposium was presented by Christie’s, auction house, and Art Law Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA). This was a first, a conference focused on the Holocaust art restitution, to take place in Italy. The symposium convened leaders of the restitution community as well as government officials, scholars, and collectors
In the concentration camp, many artists drew at the risk of their lives. These productions can tell us a lot about the condition of life in the camps, but they also raise several questions that are related to the philosophy of art. Why draw? Does the artist respond to an inner urge to reproduce? Is this idea of beauty a response of the mind to the horrible? Could atrocity push us to see beauty where we have never seen it? In this article we propose to present some clandestine productions made in the camps and to question their status which seems to defy the concept of decorative art and pushes us to rethink the notion of beauty.
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