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Nicastri, Joe, 1945-

 Person

Nationality

American

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

[Burnt Book], 1995

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-05717-5824
Scope and Contents

The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Holocaust Project Proposal] / Nicastri, Joe; Tan S., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-05718-5825
Scope and Contents

Consists of artist's personal statement of purpose for the Holocaust proposals and thirteen pages with descriptive text and brown ink drawings devoted to specific projects. Themes include Hitler's Eyes, Tunnel of Hope, Hanging Books, The Medical Block and Monument for Oklahoma City. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Holocaust Series / Nicastri, Joe., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-05722-5830
Scope and Contents

A presentation piece for Nicastri's monumental Holocaust project consisting of sculptures, boxes, poem objects, books, installation art, and texts. Includes "A Surplus of Memory" exhibition, detailed critical and descriptive essays by the artist, quotations from survivors, art historians and Nazi perpetrators. The ink line drawings are mainly done on the margins of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Surgery Its Principles and Practice / Joe Nicastri., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05665-5772
Scope and Contents

The title of the book Nicasti used is "Surgery: Its Principles & Practice." The front cover is opened with rows of nails on the outside front cover. The back cover has an attached wooden box containing a shattered plexiglas cylinder and gauge. An abstract plexiglas form is built into the fastened pages of the book. A small sculptural element, composed of a collaged wooden fragment with rows of nails, contains a partial index of the medical text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Waldsee, 1944 / Kruger L ; Borocz A ; Kentridge W ; Nicastri J ; Silverberg RA ; Wurth A ; Appelbroog I ; Avadenka L ; Chicago J ; Logemann J ; Podwal M., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-52415-73540
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was co-curated by Alma on Dobbin (N.Y.) and Laura Kruger. The exhibition was done in tribute to 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Waldsee was a deception by the Nazis as a ficticious place from where postcards of lies describing their happiness as dictated by the Nazis were sent to other Jews but in reality were written before being killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[World unborn], 1990

 Item — Box 163: [Barcode: 31858072458171]
Identifier: CC-05648-5755
Scope and Contents

This sculpture provides a visual/verbal vignette of the fragility of the first breath of life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

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