Katzenjammer Nr 3200 (Book in Japanese) by Design: Tomi Ungerer - 1994

New York: Paragraphic Books, 1966. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. One of the early political projects from artist, designer, and children's book author Tomi Ungerer, Nicht Wahr? combines found photography used in Nazi propoganda with text with accounts of the war taken from Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte. Born in Alsace in 1931, Ungerer explains in his preface that his continued fascination with the Nazi regime and World War lI stems from his childhood experience of the French Occupation, which began when he was eight years old. Having seen the mechanisms of fascism first hand from a child's perspective as his school curriculum was altered to include racial and anti-Semitic material, this project can be seen as a continued meditation on the Nazi rise to power. Juxtaposing the smiling propaganda pictures of Hitler and other Nazis with Malaparte's brutal accounts of atrocities like slave labor, forced prostitution and mass murder, Ungerer adds another… Read More