Catalogs

• 118 pages with 49 color illustrations
• Stroemfeld Verlag, 2006
• ISBN: 3-87877-969-0

He sketched with pencil, ink, and oil on writing paper and card. The Franz Kafka series which emerged is structured in its content: The first section focuses on characters from Franz Kafka's work, the second on people who were close to the author such as his father Hermann Kafka, his fellow author and friend Max Brod, and his fiancée Felice Bauer. Pavel Schmidt devotes the final section to encounters and feelings of people featuring in Kafka's stories and novels.

"Pavel Schmidt: f.k." publishes hitherto unpublished texts from Franz Kafka's bequest. The combination of these texts with an art book by Pavel Schmidt, the facets of Schmidt's associative method of visualization and the poetic force of Kafka's language, are astoundingly atmospheric.

• Published by the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Jewish Museum Vienna
• 144 pages with approx. 160 color illustrations, hardcover
• Format: ca. 21 x 27 cm
• Nicolai Verlag, 2008
• ISBN: 978-3-89479-479-8

Stereotypes shape our image of ourselves and of "others" and provide material for racist and anti-Semitic ideologies. In three essays with over 150 illustrations, this book takes a look at clichés and prejudices, how they come about, the function they serve, and how politics and art can break them down.

Characterizations, classifications, and generalizations provide us with reference points which help us find our feet in the world. But at what point do they turn into stereotyped thinking, senseless prejudices, and resentments? When do they become nationalistic, anti-Semitic or racist?

This book explores the emphatically caricature-like characterization of other nationalities prevalent in the 19th century, the continuing struggle of the African-Americans against racism, and the question of why often malevolent accounts of others are relished. The exhibits demonstrate how bizarre and shocking objects can emerge when they are an expression of stereotypical thinking; these are presented once more here in context.

• Published by Susan Tumarkin Goodman, with essays by Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Andy Grundberg, and Nissan N. Perez
• 120 pages, 23 b/w + 83 color illustrations, Hardcover
• Yale University Press in cooperation with the Jewish Museum, New York, 2007
• ISBN: 9780300111569

Susan Tumarkin Goodman investigates the aesthetic and political contexts of photography and video art "made in Israel"; Andy Grundberg discusses the roots of the art of photography in Israel, placing it in an international context; and Nissan N. Perez offers insight into the cultural topics that influence the production of art in Israel today.

The English original addition is supplemented by German translations of the three essays.

• Edited by Edward van Voolen
• 432 pages, 860 illustrations, of them 835 in color, paperback,
• Prestel Verlag

CD-ROM "Charlotte Salomon. The complete collection"

in English and Dutch

This cd-rom offers you:
All sheets belonging to Life? or Theatre?, including transparencies, verso-sides and the many disapproved versions, music extracts, spoken texts, texts written by Charlotte Salomon, extensive documentation with photographs, a bibliography, a video fragment and an introduction to the work.

Published by the Jodds Historisch Museum Amsterdam
Price: 19,95 euros
"Chantal Akerman: Neben seinen Schnürsenkeln in einem leeren Kühlschrank laufen" (Chantal Akerman: Walking Next to One's Shoelaces Inside an Empty Fridge)

Publication on the installation of the same name.

Edited by Cilly Kugelmann
Jewish Museum Berlin/Laconic Press, hardcover, approx. 56 pp. with illustrations of the installations, price: approx. 9 euros

Contents "Heb es gut auf" (Be Careful With That)
Chantal Akerman and Charlotte Salomon at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Cilly Kugelmann

Muttertag (Mothers' Day)
On Chantal Akerman
Amy Taubin

Chantal Akerman
Die Autobiografiespirale (The Autobiographical Spiral)
Edna Moshenson

Neben seinen Schnürsenkeln in einem leeren Kühlschrank laufen (Walking Next to One's Shoelaces Inside an Empty Fridge)
Chantal Akerman
Exhibitions and Films