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More Flavor: Lecture Abstraction and the Holocaust

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Tate Modern curator Dr. Mark Godfrey examines the repercussions of the Holocaust on the abstract-art movement in America. Although popular abstractionists like Barnett Newman and Richard Serra are both of Jewish descent, neither artist is widely recognized for his religious heritage. And yet, Newman's masterful series of black-and-white paintings The Stations of the Cross is a tribute to victims of the Holocaust, while Serra was one of four artists specially commissioned by the United States Holocaust Museum when it opened. Godfrey looks at the use of abstraction as a response to tragedy through these works and other examples.

– Chelsea Bauch