The Listener

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The Listener reveals one of the world's most tragic acts of spin doctoring while weaving a compelling tale of complacency, art, power, and murder. It is a startling little-known story that changed the course of history.

1933: In a small German state, the last democratic election is about to take place before a failed artist named Hitler seizes power. The election is Hitler's final chance to manipulate events that will lead to the death of ...

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Overview

The Listener reveals one of the world's most tragic acts of spin doctoring while weaving a compelling tale of complacency, art, power, and murder. It is a startling little-known story that changed the course of history.

1933: In a small German state, the last democratic election is about to take place before a failed artist named Hitler seizes power. The election is Hitler's final chance to manipulate events that will lead to the death of millions.

2010: After a man dies during a political act inspired by a work of art, the artist flees to Europe to escape her guilt. Through a chance meeting she discovers the truth of the 1933 election. The past becomes pivotal as she decides her future.

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Musician/activist/artist Lester offers a dense mix of art, politics, and human connection in this story, which brings together a contemporary sculptor named Louise and the 1933 machinations that began Hitler's career in Germany. Stark black and white drawings show modern faces in sunglasses, symbols of urban anonymity, while the faces of the past loom up and frequently overtake them. Intellectual urban dwellers trade postmodern truisms as a punk aesthetic bristles on every page, with Louise traveling Europe, visiting museums and the scenes of historical devastation. Everywhere, she reflects on the ways art and politics are intertwined, musing for example on Picasso's antifascist Guernica vs. his later work Massacre in Korea. Hitler appears midway through the book, his face filling the page in stark light and shadow. Louise creates her political sculpture, still wondering whether it is true that "art has the power to question, to argue, to bear witness, to inspire..." The book ends with a chronology of Hitler's rise to power and an extensive bibliography listing works about Nazism and its relationship to art. A dense and fiercely intelligent work that asks important questions about art, history, and the responsibility of the individual, all in a lyrical and stirring tone. (May)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781894037488
  • Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
  • Publication date: 5/15/2011
  • Pages: 312
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

David Lester is a cartoonist, painter, graphic designer, and guitarist in the rock duo Mecca Normal. He created the poster series "Inspired Agitators," now archived at The Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. Lester also does a weekly illustration, with text by Mecca Normal bandmate Jean Smith, for Magnet Magazine. His artwork has been published in MungBeing, Z Magazine, Reproduce & Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist, The San Diego Reader, and Warburger. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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