Wanderausstellung „Democracy Will Win!" An der Northwestern University
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Die Wanderausstellung „Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!", die vom Thomas Mann House konzipiert wurde, wird ab Februar in der University Library der Northwestern University ausgestellt.
*Diese Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt*
Join the Goethe-Institut Chicago and Northwestern University for a series of talks about Thomas Mann’s advocacy of democracy during the Nazi period, held on the occasion of the exhibition 'Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win,' currently on view at the University Library.
The exhibition commemorates the series of lecture tours that the Nobel Laureate conducted throughout the Unites States from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. The first of these tours began at Northwestern University, where more than 4000 people came to hear him speak about the fundamental reasons for liberal democracy. “It is a terrible spectacle when the irrational becomes popular,” Mann said in a speech at the Library of Congress in 1943, and he drew on his considerable powers of thought and expression to counter the sources of this spectacle through his confident motto: “Democracy will win.”
The like-named exhibit, located on the ground floor of the University Library, is divided into two parts: the first charts the changes in Mann’s political views, while the second connects Mann’s lectures tours to current political situations in both Europe and the United States.
The library and the exhibit is open to the public Monday – Saturday, 8am – 6pm with photo ID.
Teilnehmerin
Nicola L. was born in 1932 in Morocco and died in 2019 in Los Angeles. In the 1960s, she worked in Ibiza and Paris and was part of an intellectual and artistic cohort invested in both conceptual art and pop, which included Alberto Greco, Yves Klein, and Marta Minujín. Nicola L.'s oeuvre is full of humor and wit: men as sofas, knobs as nipples, unchaste applications of faux fur. She cleverly made literal the objectification of the female form. Generally, her practice tackled representations of the body and the social persona through conceptual works, functional and domestic items, furniture, installations, paintings, films, performances, and diaristic and dreamlike drawings. Her caricatural anthropomorphic objects question the nature of subjectivity, especially in relation to her feminist concerns. Many of her sculptures invite the viewer to activate them through touch.
Partner
Dieses Projekt ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Del Vaz Projects, der Villa Aurora, FRIEZE und dem Thomas Mann House.
