http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/spiegelman Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:09:15 -0400 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:09:15 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/517/representing-history-in-art-spiegelmans-maus-ii By Derek D. Miller - When representing an idea, it is important to realize that a representation is much different from the original idea and can never fully grasp its complexities. It is also important to remember that it is impossible to not represent the concept one is portraying. To portray something is to represent it. The trouble in conveying a historical event is that, as an author, one has the obligation of showing the reader that the author’s representation is just that, a representation and not the original concept or the entirety of the event; nor told with absolute accuracy. Therefore, it is impossible... Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:39 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/517/representing-history-in-art-spiegelmans-maus-ii http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/358/retelling-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-in-shoah-and-maus-distorted-images-of-a-monstrous-past By Jeremy S. Page - An artist, especially one who works with the visual media, is bound to come across obstacles in his creation of a work that represents or recollects images of the Shoah (i.e., the Holocaust). Precisely how does one represent an almost industrial genocide on such an enormous scale? Shoah and Maus take two very different approaches in their attempt to represent the experience of the death camps, and Maus in particular is a deliberate distortion of the image, but in retelling the stories, the testimonies, experienced by survivors of the camps using such deliberate artifice, both texts are capable... Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/358/retelling-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-in-shoah-and-maus-distorted-images-of-a-monstrous-past