Perpetrators: A Traveling Exhibit
by Sid Chafetz

NOW AVAILABLE!

Perpetrators, a series of forty-two lithographs, is available on loan from the THC.

The exhibit offers viewers a striking entry into the subject of "people who made Hitler possible." Chafetz adds: "In the accompanying catalog, I focus on a group of men who helped Hitler to power and implemented his policies." The images profile each perpetrator in two dimensions--the first captures the rather ordinary appearance of each person, people who are very much like us, but who, as we learn from the text incorporated into the print itself, played a very significant role in creating the Holocaust.

In his introduction to the catalogue, Allon Schoener writes: "In his Perpetrators, Sid Chafetz, an artist and master printmaker who has dedicated his professional career to creating works of art of profound social significance, presents a series of portraits of what might be called the 'ordinary people' who executed Hitler's ghoulish plans. Although he often works in woodcuts, for this subject, Chafetz chose monotone lithographs as his predominant medium. Without question, it is appropriate because there is no attempt at artifice; the people and their brief biographies are revealed as documentary facts--an aesthetic decision that commands a heightened sense of reality."

Perpetrators requires 175 running feet of exhibit space. The exhibit is available in one of two options.
• Set One (unframed, covered in acetate) and grommeted for quick and easy installation.
• Set Two is beautifully framed in wood.
Each set contains all 42 original lithograph prints.

Catalog is available and includes photographs of each of the lithographs included in the exhibition.

Arrangements to borrow Perpetrators can be made with the THC office. Call Ruth Tanner, Executive Director, for details at (615) 343-2563. The exhibit ships from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.