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Boris Lurie is an artist who pushed for political relevance in art and the art trade. With his widely discussed and controversial works, he indicted a society that seemed to go out of its way to avoid dealing with crimes against humanity by packaging its testimony to these crimes between advertising and everyday platitudes. Having grown up as the son of a Jewish family in Riga, Boris Lurie and his father survived several ghettos and concentration camps. In the United States, to where he emigrated in 1946, he created a remarkable artistic oeuvre that will go down in history as a radical examination of the twentieth century. This book accompanying the retrospective at the Jewish Museum Berlin is dedicated to the art of Boris Lurie with a section of images as well as six essays by Eiko Grimberg, Volkhard Knigge, Gertrud Koch, Matthias Reichelt, Tal Sterngast, Mirjam Wenzel, and a preface by Cilly Kugelmann.