Fighting Artist Arthur Szyk: Szyk Expert Irvin Ungar on Social Justice, Historical Justice and the Artist's Role

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SHOW NOTES:

3:00 Ungar’s introduction to Szyk

10:15 Byron Sherwin’s involvement with creating a solo show Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk in Chicago with the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies 

15:25 2000 Library of Congress exhibition, Artist for Freedom

21:00 2002 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibition, The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk

23:25 Biography of Szyk by Joseph Ansell entitled Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole

25:20 Exhibitions in Poland

32:45 2008 Deutshes Historiches museum exhibition

42:00 2017 New York Historical Society exhibition Soldier In Art

50:50 Bergson Group

55:50 McCarthyism & Szyk’s Thomas Jefferson’s Oath: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 

1:07:15 2017 Ungar’s book Arthur Szyk: Soldier In Art won 2017 National Jewish Book Award

1:13:20 Wagner

1:22:30 Comparison of Chagall’s White Crucifixion, Picasso’s Guernica and Szyk’s De Profundis

1:30:25 Japanese Historian Rinjiro Sodei’s book illustrated with Szyk’s work, Representing Hirohito in Wartime: The Art of Arthur Szyk

1:44:45 Book in progress to list the thirty institutions that hold Szyk’s work

1:46:35 Ungar’s memoir, Reviving An Artist’s Fame: My Life With Arthur Szyk

1:48:00 Short documentaries about Szyk 

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