Edited sentence: An important breakthrough in this was the publication of Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1972) by Art Spiegelman.Some want to see art as part of a process of healing, and in this they work in a manner akin to art therapy or the older twentieth century notion of art psychology.There are others who resist the implicit mandate that art should be put into the service of psychological repair.There is now a genre of art that focuses on, exposes, and comments on survivors and survivor-tales.These artists tend to work in a direction that links trauma to questions of memory, identity and politics