{"id":14890,"date":"2021-12-12T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14890"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T23:05:10","slug":"episode-464-nora-krug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-464-nora-krug","title":{"rendered":"Episode 464 – Nora Krug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 464:
\nNora Krug<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I’ve been using illustration as a form of research, trying to figure out what kind of traces war and history leave on us, and how our thinking and feeling is impacted over the course of decades and centuries, based on the political experience we have as people and as countries.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Artist, illustrator & author Nora Krug<\/a> rejoins the show to talk about her work on the new Graphic Edition of Timothy Snyder’s ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/a> (Ten Speed Press). We get into how the project originated and how illustrating On Tyranny<\/em> compelled her to live up to its lessons, her approach to illustrating the book and how a visual experience can create a new reading of it, her use of personal photographs from the Third Reich, and how this project serves as a companion to her award-winning graphic memoir BELONGING<\/a>. We talk about her concerns about misread propaganda imagery, the assumptions she had to make about readers’ visual literacy and what illustrations and design could constitute “hijacking” Snyder’s text, the ways photographs can make people accountable, what it means when governments censor photos, and the contrasting perspectives she and Snyder brought to the book: an American facing Europe and a European facing America. We also discuss how the text was updated post-January 6 and which of its lessons are “nice” vs. “critical”, the optimism that lies in the midst of the book’s dire message, what she & Snyder have learned from each other during their virtual book tour, Nora’s realization that she has an artistic mission for the rest of her life, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read On Tyranny<\/a> & Belonging<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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“On Tyranny is a call to action; now that I’ve illustrated the book, I’d better live up to its lessons.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n