Women on the Himmelstrasse 1943: Spirituality in Judith Gor’s Art of Atrocity

Abstract

While life thrives on all that is particular, private and personal, arbitrary atrocity conspires to establish itself on the power to destroy it. Conversely, art of atrocity finds its vocation in concentrating on the particular, by magnifying minute details. Individualizing the anonymous victim, ‘art of atrocity' ¹ protests the conspiracy of dehumanization that lies with destruction of life.