Title:
The art of memory : Holocaust memorials in history
Author:
Young, James Edward.
ISBN:
9783791313221
9783791313375
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Prestel : Distributed in the US and Canada on behalf of Prestel by Neues Pub. Co., ©1994.
Physical Description:
194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Contents:
Monument and memory in a postmodern age / Andreas Huyssen -- The art of memory : Holocaust memorials in history / James E. Young -- The monument vanishes : a conversation with Esther and Jochen Gerz / Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen -- Und ihr habt doch gesiegt / Hans Haacke -- George Segal's Holocaust memorial : an interview with the artist / Matthew Baigell -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / James Ingo Freed -- Memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto Monument / Nathan Rapoport -- Germany's Buchenwald : whose shrine? Whose memory? / Claudia Koonz -- The dialectics of memory in Poland : Holocaust memorials in Warsaw / Konstanty Gebert -- The Anne Frank House : Holland's memorial "shrine of the book" / James E. Young -- The Soviet politics of the Holocaust / Zvi Gitelman -- Memory of the Shoah in Israel : symbols, rituals, and ideological polarization / Saul Friedländer -- Holocaust memory in America / Peter Novick -- Auschwitz is debated in Oświe̜cim : the topography of remembrance / Jochen Spielmann -- Why we go to Poland : Holocaust tourism as secular ritual / Jack Kugelmass -- Revisiting the camps / Primo Levi.
Abstract:
We have chosen to investigate the reasons why memorials have been built, to look at whose memory is being honored, and to examine the responses to these memorials. The creation of an exhibition and the production of this book presented the opportunity for an analytic perspective. In the process, we have neither created another memorial nor have we solely explored the field of Holocaust art. Rather, we have attempted to reveal the nature of the creative process through the discussion of specific examples of a number of memorials, and we have tried to understand their meaning and the reaction to them in the many places where they exist. - Preface.
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