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Museum of Degenerates

Portraits of the American Grotesque

Eli Valley

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English
Miscellaneous
21 May 2025
An explosive exhibition of art by a celebrated cartoonist chronicling America's march toward right-wing authoritarianism.

Museum of Degeneratesinvites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America's most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley's extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public debate and action.

In these pages, Valley tips a homburg to German expressionists such as George Grosz and Otto Dix who featured in ""The Exhibition of Degenerate Art,"" a 1937 Munich show that sought to ridicule the work of artists critical of Hitler's fascist regime. In an aesthetic that is strikingly original, Valley also draws on early twentieth-century American Yiddish cartoons and the work of artists who created the helter-skelter exuberance ofMADcomics in the 1950s.

Valley's own art, accompanied here by extensive descriptions of its genesis and context, is a howl of protest against the political, cultural and media elites driving America into an authoritarian abyss. Here is anger, pure and hot, expressed in exquisite detail and, often, disturbingly funny.
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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 304mm,  Width: 254mm, 
ISBN:   9781682193877
ISBN 10:   168219387X
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Eli Valley is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in a range of publications including The Nation, The Nib, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The Forward and Gawker.

Reviews for Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque

“The Angriest Political Cartoonist in America.” —New York Magazine “The kind of political cartoons that get under your skin and stay there.” —PRINT Magazine “Sumptuous” —Bookforum ""Museum of Degenerates invites you to a delirious display of art by one of contemporary America’s most original and incendiary political cartoonists. Eli Valley’s extraordinary work is a scathing indictment of the entire American polity, with a particular focus on the issues of Israel and Judaism at a time when these have moved to the center of public debate and action."" —The Daily Cartoonist PRAISE FOR ELI VALLEY'S DIASPORA BOY “One of the most fascinating and darkly humorous books in living memory.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A gorgeous, enormous and important collection.” —Haaretz “Explosively subversive.” —Kirkus “His cartoons aren’t only raucously funny. They constitute a searing indictment of the moral corruption of organized American Jewish life in our age.” —Peter Beinart “With great humor, Eli Valley's comic-strips expertly debunk the benighted tribal propaganda that passes for mainstream Jewish thought. As he demonstrates in each of his strips, the struggle for Jewish emancipation is far from over.” —Ben Katchor “The work is difficult, funny, powerful, mightily subversive, and a testament to the depth of his focus.” —Hyperallergic “Anyone interested in ongoing debates in the Jewish community, and the political uses of humor, should check out his work, which is smart, talkative and heavily inked. … Hilarious.” —Kent Worcester, The Comics Journal


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