{"product_id":"9781682193877","title":"Museum of Degenerates : Portraits of the American Grotesque by Eli Valley","description":"An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism.   Museum of Degenerates?invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America's most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley's extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public debate and action.   In these pages, Valley tips a homburg to German expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix who featured in \"The Exhibition of Degenerate Art,\" a 1937 Munich show that sought to ridicule the work of artists critical of Hitler's fascist regime. In an aesthetic that is strikingly original, Valley also draws on early twentieth-century American Yiddish cartoons and the work of artists who created the helter-skelter exuberance of?MAD?comics in the 1950s.   Valley's own art, accompanied here by extensive descriptions of its genesis and context, is a howl of protest against the political, cultural and media elites driving America into an authoritarian abyss. Here is anger, pure and hot, expressed in exquisite detail and, often, disturbingly funny.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303449276789,"sku":"9781682193877","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781682193877.jpg?v=1762794469","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781682193877","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}