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The Contemporary: Hitler Asleep in the Mercedes

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The Contemporary group invites you to the lecture "Hitler Asleep in the Mercedes" by Altair Brandon-Salmon (PhD candidate in Art History, Stanford University).

Heinrich Hoffmann’s 1932 photograph of Hitler asleep in his Mercedes, his face hidden, enables us to understand the aesthetics of fascism and probe the limits of representation. Appropriated by Troy Brauntuch for his 1979 solo show at the Kitchen in New York, Hoffmann’s image is revealed to be a receptacle of contested histories, spanning Nazi Germany and America.

Brandon-Salmon's dissertation is on how ruins shaped postwar London and his writing has appeared in Art HistoryAmerica, Commonweal, and Oxford Review of Books.

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