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Railroad Collage

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Railroad Collage is a controversial mixed media collage produced by Boris Lurie in 1959 which superimposed a pin-up girl onto a well-known liberation photograph, which featured a flatbed of stacked with corpses, juxtaposing the American consumer culture with the Holocaust.[1] The collage which is considered to be an elaboration of Lurie's earlier work, Flatcar Assemblage by Adolf Hitler, is considered to be Boris Lurie most notorious and controversial work.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ a b H. Katz, David (February 23 – March 1, 2005). "Boris Lurie: Uneasy visions, uncomfortable truths". The Villager. 74 (42).
  2. ^ Howell, Beatrice (2005). "Ethics and Aesthetics: Boris Lurie's Railroad Collage and Representing the Holocaust" (PDF). MA dissertation at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  3. ^ Moynihan, Colin (12 January 2008). "Boris Lurie, 83, Leader of a Confrontational Art Movement". The New York Times. p. 7. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
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