Free Book on Polish Synagogues
Susan Cooper, creator of an art installation entitled Recollection, is offering free copies of an accompanying book/catalog, underwritten by The Rubel Shapiro Foundation for the Arts, for libraries, organizations,and individuals who are interested in the Holocaust, architecture, and art. The exhibition integrates architecture, sculpture, painting, and light, featuring details of synagogue architecture and design based on actual historic Polish synagogue facades of the 17th-20th centuries. The catalog, with both color and black and white illustrations, also includes detailed drawings of the facades with approximate locations and dates of the buildings. Also included are two essays: “Vanishing Points” by Lucy R. Lippard “The Synagogue in History” by Jack Henry Kunin. In her essay, Lippard notes that, in Cooper’s work, “art can activate, even resurrect, memory and then shape and prolong it.” The exhibition was inspired by the book WOODEN SYNAGOGUES by Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, published in Polish by Arkady, Warsaw, in 1928. It was also inspired by photos and stories from the artist’s family. After touring the artist’s home state of Colorado, Recollection was exhibited at The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. It was then purchased by the Rubel Shapiro Foundation and donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust where it remains. For a free copy of the book, please email your request to Susan Cooper at susancooper...@gmail.com <mailto:susancooper...@gmail.com>
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