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Theologian and scholar Thomas A. Indinopulos wrote the following: “The artist does not communicate facts to the understanding; rather, in creativity, intelligently, and sensitively expressing what he takes as object, he makes us feel the weight of its reality.” Suffering strikes us as a profound topic to endeavor to depict, but many great works of art do indeed take that route. This lecture will explore some examples of suffering from antiquity to the last century in an effort to demonstrate that more than educating us, the artist transforms us and makes us feel.

Presented by Dr. Simon Sibelman, Professor Emeritus, French and Holocaust Studies, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh