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Real Nazis, using the same format and production values as its predecessor, is the “real” brother that now seems an ugly reflection of that “glamorous” artist’s book The Nazis.   So who are the “real” Nazis in this picture puzzle? What qualifies as constituting a bona fide Nazi? Which pictures are “real” and which are “fake”? All of them? None of them?  This play of mirrors serves as a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.  Then as now: “Beneath all the insignia and accoutrements of evil lurks the iconography of media kitsch and ridicule.  It’s all about the power of costumes and the costumes of power, about the glamour of evil, the glistening shine of fake medals made of fake gold. ” Uklanski’s Real Nazis is coming out on the occasion of the opening of the Documenta 14 on June 7, 2017 in Kassel, Germany.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739928535313,"sku":"NGR9783906803524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51065262473489,"sku":"NIN9783906803524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/390680352X.jpg?v=1751158955"},{"product_id":"pornalikes-book-piotr-uklanski-9783906803777","title":"Pornalikes","description":"Pornalikes is a book of portraits with a difference, culled from a 2002–2018 photo archive of porn actors who resemble or actually even portray celebrities and public figures.  Polish artist Piotr Ukla?ski draws on a stock of hard and soft copies of “dirty” glossy men’s magazines like Hustler and Loaded—as well as a plethora of meme culture material dumped on websites and blogs.   In an age in which the dichotomy between signifier and signified has long since come apart at the seams, Ukla?ski, in a dicey combination of criticality and media exploitation, subverts the original expectations of the traditional art-historical topos of portraiture.  In this extreme—and extremely absurd—form of portraiture, Pornalikes is hell bent on challenging conventional morality and the bounds of so-called good taste.   It shoves us willy-nilly into a postmodern hall of mirrors and trashy picture puzzles amid the morass of celebrity culture and neoliberal instrumentalization and commodification of the human body.  It explores the pop-cultural tensions between sexual identity and exploitation, man and woman, fiction and reality, real biography and the story that comes out in the press.  Delving into these dichotomies, Pornalikes picks up where the cult series The Nazis and Real Nazis, also published by Edition Patrick Frey, left off.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51065779585297,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51065781682449,"sku":"NIN9783906803777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51783791083793,"sku":"NGR9783906803777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3906803775.jpg?v=1751190576"},{"product_id":"piotr-uklanski-ottomania-book-piotr-uklanski-9780988469136","title":"Piotr Uklanski: Ottomania","description":"Continuing this investigation, Uklanskis new book, Ottomania, traces the phenomenon of Orientalist portraiture over the past 500 yearsimages of men in turbans, theatrically embellished masculine dress, richly decorated fabrics, the codification of facial hair and the romantic settings of Ottoman or Persian court life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141550010641,"sku":"NLS9780988469136","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780988469136.jpg?v=1757577457"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-piotr-uklanski.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}